North Korea leader Kim threatens nuclear response if sovereignty breached, KCNA says

Kim criticised South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for threatening to terminate the North Korean regime at a military day match on Tuesday, saying the suppose confirmed which aspect became destroying regional safety and peace

Reuters

04 October, 2024, 12:00 pm

Final modified: 04 October, 2024, 12:03 pm

North Korean chief Kim Jong Un acknowledged the country wouldn’t hesitate to consume all accessible offensive forces at the side of nuclear weapons if the enemy attempted to consume drive to encroach on its sovereignty, state info company KCNA reported on Friday.

Kim criticised South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for threatening to terminate the North Korean regime at a military day match on Tuesday, saying the suppose confirmed which aspect became destroying regional safety and peace.

Kim acknowledged Yoon “bragged about overwhelming counteraction of military muscle at the doorstep of the state possessed of nuclear weapons and it became an improbable irony that caused the suspicion of being an irregular man,” KCNA reported.

“He affirmed that ‘if’ the enemy, seized with outrageous foolishness and recklessness, attempt to consume militia encroaching upon the sovereignty of the DPRK … the DPRK would consume without hesitation the total offensive forces it has possessed, at the side of nuclear weapons,” KCNA added.

DPRK is brief for the Democratic Of us’s Republic of Korea, North Korea’s professional title. KCNA acknowledged Kim made the feedback at a practicing disagreeable of military particular operation fashions on Wednesday.

North Korea has for an extended time pursued a nuclear weapons programme and is believed to private ample fissile materials to originate dozens of such weapons. It has done six underground nuclear detonation exams.

On Tuesday, South Korea marked the annual militia day with a military parade showcasing a ballistic missile capable of carrying an enormous warhead that additionally featured a flypast of a US bomber.

In a speech, Yoon warned Pyongyang against utilizing nuclear weapons, saying that might maybe maybe be met with “a resolute, overwhelming response from our military and the US alliance.”

“That day will leer the terminate of the North Korean regime,” Yoon acknowledged.

Kim acknowledged “the enemies’ threatening rhetoric, motion, trick and attempt did no longer test the DPRK’s highly effective military strength and might maybe maybe no longer take away our nuclear weapons forever,” KCNA reported.