North Korea intends to strengthen its deterrence capabilities


During a meeting on Monday April 10, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered the strengthening of his country’s deterrence capabilities.





By QM with AFP

Kim Jong-un and North Korea want to strengthen their nuclear arsenal to prevent “aggression” from the United States and South Korea.
© STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP

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INorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for increasing his country’s deterrence capabilities to counter what he called “hysterical” aggression from the United States and South Korea, the state news agency said on Tuesday (April 11).

On Monday, the North Korean number one attended a meeting of the Central Military Commission devoted to the fight “against the escalation of the maneuvers of the American imperialists and the traitorous South Korean puppets to start a war of aggression”, according to the official KCNA news agency.

At this meeting, Kim Jong-un ordered the strengthening of North Korea’s deterrence capabilities, “more and more quickly” and in a “more concrete and offensive” way.

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An intensification of military exercises

Since March 23, Pyongyang has notably claimed to have carried out three tests of an underwater nuclear attack drone capable of “producing a large-scale radioactive tsunami”. The regime also said it launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on March 16. Last year, North Korea declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear power, thus burying possible negotiations on the denuclearization of its country.

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And in March, Kim Jong-un ordered his troops to intensify their exercises for “real war”. Washington and Seoul responded with joint military maneuvers, involving US stealth aircraft.

Pyongyang considers these maneuvers as rehearsals for an invasion of its territory and described them on Tuesday as “hysterical” exercises, “simulating an all-out war against” North Korea.




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