Kim Jong-un Says US-ROK-Japan Security Cooperation Requires Further Build Up of Nuclear Forces
Kim Jong-un was going to build his nuclear arsenal further regardless of the military cooperation between the ROK, US, and Japan:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated U.S. security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave threat to his country and vowed to further bolster his nuclear weapons program, state media reported Sunday.
Kim has previously made similar warnings, but his latest statement implies again that the North Korean leader won’t likely embrace President Donald Trump’s overture to meet him and revive diplomacy anytime soon. In a speech marking the 77th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army on Saturday, Kim said the U.S.-Japan-South Korea trilateral security partnership established under a U.S. plot to form a NATO-like regional military bloc is inviting military imbalance on the Korean Peninsula and “raising a grave challenge to the security environment of our state,” according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
“Referring to a series of new plans for rapidly bolstering all deterrence including nuclear forces, he clarified once again the unshakable policy of more highly developing the nuclear forces,” KCNA said.
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He may not be entirely on the wrong track.
“After 1945, Japan was the only country in the world to commit itself to renouncing war in its constitution. However, in the face of increasing threats, the island nation has now announced a rearmament program. By the end of this decade, Japan could become the third strongest military power in the world. The pacifism born of the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has given way to fear of aggressive neighbors like China, Russia and North Korea. Japan’s armed forces are acquiring weapons systems as the influence of once-protective US troops slowly dwindles. Weapons include amphibious vehicles, US F-35 fighter jets and two aircraft carriers. There is enough plutonium from civilian use in the country to produce up to a thousand nuclear warheads. Missile systems are also available.”
“South Korea’s position as a defense industrial powerhouse is backed up by real numbers,” an April report by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies stated, pointing out that the country’s arms exports continually increased from $2 billion to $3 billion in the late 2010s, to $7.3 billion in 2021.”
I wonder if this military buildup will affect the Munsu Water Park?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XazaNnjo730
Any chance the world had at ‘denuclearizing’ nK went away after Barry O and Killery attacked Libya and killed the Colonel. The Colonel willing gave up his WMD only to end up hanging from a fig tree.