Kim and Normal appear beside Kim Jong Un to issue a statement on inter-Korean relations as vice minister of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party.
North Korea’s official media KCNA issued three statements in a row on Sunday (2) in response to recent moves by the U.S. and South Korea against Pyongyang. In a statement on KCNA, Kwon Jong-geun, director of U.S. affairs of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, criticized U.S. President Joe Biden’s first congressional speech recently in which he mentioned Pyongyang, and said that Biden’s remarks were hostile to North Korea and Pyongyang “had to take corresponding measures. The government also said that Biden’s remarks were hostile to North Korea and that Pyongyang “had to take corresponding measures”. In addition, the footage from North Korea’s official television station shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sister Kim Woong-jung playing an increasingly important role in Pyongyang’s political arena, with Kim Jong-un often appearing beside his older brother when he appears on stage. (By Chen Junhao)
The government’s first speech to Congress is a review of its policy toward North Korea, and its attitude reflects that the United States “continues to pursue the same hostile policy toward North Korea that it has for more than half a century” and that Pyongyang cannot condone it. Kwon said that the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK is worse than ever and threatened the Pyongyang government with “nuclear intimidation”, calling it a “threat” to the DPRK’s self-defense capability and violating Pyongyang’s right to self-defense.
North Korea cultivates containment power to counteract the U.S.
Kwon also said that the diplomacy advocated by the U.S. is “a beautiful veneer to cover up their hostile acts” and that “containment” is a threatening means of nuclear weapons. He criticized the Biden administration for holding military drills against Pyongyang and South Korea soon after taking office, which was a big mistake. He said that if Biden still uses the vision and viewpoint of the Cold War era on the relationship between North Korea and the United States, Pyongyang will certainly take measures to “cultivate containment”, and then the United States will face “an unmanageable crisis.”
A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry said in another statement that the U.S. denied the DPRK’s ideology and system and used “human rights” as a prop to interfere in its internal affairs and a political weapon to subvert the system, openly stating that it would “stifle us decisively” and warning the U.S. to ignore the DPRK. He warned that the U.S. would “definitely, definitely regret” its neglect of North Korea and told the U.S., “If you offend me, I will offend you.”
The White House and the U.S. Department of Defense did not respond to Pyongyang’s statement.
Analysis: U.S.-North Korea relations difficult to soften for now
Markus Garlauskas, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank, and former U.S. intelligence officer for North Korea, said in an interview with Reuters that Pyongyang’s language reminded the U.S. that the Korean Peninsula issue is much more important than verbal language or tactics, and that he believes the two KCNA statements “show the fundamental divergence between the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the United States.”
Galuskas added that Kim Jong-un does not intend to give up his nuclear weapons and has no intention of reforming North Korea’s political system, and it seems difficult for Washington to support a regime in Pyongyang that continues to embrace nuclear weapons, not to mention the lack of significant improvement in North Korea’s human rights problems.
Kim and Jung’s role is getting heavier
A third statement from KCNA was sent by Kim Yo-jung, Kim Jong-un’s sister and vice minister of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Kim criticized North Korean defectors in South Korea for distributing anti-North Korean leaflets, the Moon Jae-in administration for tolerating the practice of defectors, which is tantamount to provoking Pyongyang and affecting relations between the two Koreas, and criticized South Korea for letting the defectors go as a delusional move that “makes us feel very unpleasant.”
In the clip released by the official North Korean television station, after the anchor briefs on the criticism of South Korea for letting the defectors go, the first shot is of Kim Woong-jung, followed by a clip of the meeting between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in, with Kim Woong-jung sitting close to Kim Jong-un, taking notes while Kim Jong-un speaks, and the two Korean leaders signing a document, with Kim Woong-jung assisting Kim Jong-un with his seal. The video ends with Kim Jong Un riding a white horse and Kim Jong riding a horse to accompany him.
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