North Korea condemned recent comments by the South Korean Defense Minister on Sunday in which he spoke about the country's capabilities to attack its neighbor, and urged Seoul to be more content “if it wants to avoid a disaster.”
In a statement released this Sunday by the state news agency, KCNA, the sister of dictator Kim Jong-un and current senior North Korean single party official, Kim Yo-jong, accused Minister Suh Wook of “further worsening inter-Korean relations and military tension on the Korean peninsula” for his “reckless” rhetoric.
Defense Minister Suh made comments last Friday in which he highlighted the South Korean army's possession of varied missiles capable of accurately and quickly attacking any part of North Korea if it detects a missile launch.
Suh “dared to mention a 'pre-emptive strike' against a nuclear-armed state in its senseless bravado, which will never be beneficial to South Korea,” said Kim, noting that Pyonyang will “reconsider many things” with regard to Seoul, which “may face a serious threat because of its comments reckless”.
“North Korea should discipline itself if it wants to avoid disaster,” Kim added.
In another statement also released this Saturday, North Korean military and politburo member Pak Jong-chon also referred to Suh's words and assured that if Seoul embarks on “a dangerous military action,” Pyonyang will “mercilessly direct all its military force to destroy important targets in Seoul and its army.”
“The Korean peninsula is technically at war. Any slight error of judgment and misstatement that disturbs the other party in the current situation, in which acute military tension persists, can become a spark that triggers a dangerous conflict and a full-blown war,” said Pak.
Both countries have never signed a peace agreement after the civil war that confronted them between 1950 and 1953, which resulted in an armistice.
Tension between the two countries has increased this year with repeated missile tests, the most recent last week, with which it has already accumulated 12 tests, a record figure for 2022 so far.
The tests in the North have sometimes been answered by South Korean weapons tests.
(With information from EFE)
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