North Korea’s Kim Jong Un pushes goal to become nuclear powerhouse in warning to South Korea

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un went aft South Korea’s president for the 2nd clip successful a week, informing again connected Tuesday that Pyongyang volition propulsion forward with its plans to beryllium a apical atomic player.

Kim accused South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol of issuing "some tasteless and vulgar remark astir the extremity of the Republic" successful a caller code and said it shows "he is wholly consumed by his unsighted religion successful his master's strength," helium added, according to a Reuters report, successful notation to Seoul’s concern with Washington. 

"To beryllium honest, we person perfectly nary volition of attacking South Korea," Kim said during a speech at a subject schoolhouse named aft him, the Kim Jong Un National Defense University.

Kim Jong Un visits a North Korean service grooming basal astatine an undisclosed location, Sept. 11, 2024.   (KCNA via Reuters)

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Kim’s comments came aft South Korea’s president condemned Pyongyang’s caller uncover of a new atomic installation past month and successful turn, during its Armed Forces Day past week, displayed a caller Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile, which, according to a Newsweek report, is susceptible of destroying underground facilities successful North Korea.

Yoon has repeatedly pushed for a denuclearized North Korea arsenic determination tensions proceed to escalate. 

A Yonhapnews TV broadcast astatine Yongsan Railway Station successful Seoul reported that North Korean person Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-fire of a caller tactical ballistic missile, connected Sept. 19, 2024. (Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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But Kim, who has agelong looked to expand North Korea’s atomic capabilities, objected to the calls to denuclearize and said, "Every clip I stated our presumption connected the usage of subject force, I intelligibly and consistently utilized the qualification ‘if.’"

"If the enemies effort to usage unit against our country, the republic's subject volition usage each violative powerfulness without hesitation," helium added. "This does not preclude the usage of atomic weapons."

"Our footsteps toward becoming a subject superpower and a atomic powerfulness volition accelerate," Kim added.

North Korean person Kim Jong Un during a property confernce, June 19, 2024, successful Pyongyang. (Contributor/Getty Images)

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The comments were the 2nd clip successful a week that Kim directed an ominous connection astatine his confederate neighbour aft helium warned earlier this period that North Korea volition respond with atomic unit if its sovereignty is threatened.

According to state tally quality bureau KNCA past week, Kim "affirmed that 'if' the enemy, seized with utmost foolishness and recklessness, effort to usage equipped forces encroaching upon the sovereignty of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]… the DPRK would usage without hesitation each the violative forces it has possessed, including atomic weapons," Reuters reported.