Seoul, Nov 22 (EFE).- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in a speech in Pyongyang that the failed negotiations he held with the US president-elect, Donald Trump, in his previous term show that Washington has no will to «coexist» with his regime and that its hostile policy towards Pyongyang will never change.
«We have already gone to every possible point of negotiating with the United States, and what we were convinced of the outcome was not the will of the host country to coexist, but the strict position of strength and the aggressive and hostile policy toward the DPRK (North Korea’s official name) that could never change,» Kim said at the opening ceremony of an armed forces exhibition, state news agency KCNA reported Friday.
Kim’s remarks, delivered at the opening of the «National Defense Development 2024» exhibition on Thursday, come just two months before Trump returns to the White House amid growing expectations that he may seek during his second term to resume dialogue with Pyongyang, which failed after the 2019 Hanoi summit.
«The doctrine that the United States is never hostile…has long since sounded like a strange myth to the people of the world,» Kim added, implying that he is closing the door to returning to the negotiating table with Washington.
«The abominable ambition of the US imperialists and their vassals to annihilate our ideology and system and exterminate our people has not changed in the slightest and is being promoted to a stage of reckless execution in this century,» the North Korean leader said.
Kim described the current global panorama as a «catastrophic disaster» and denounced that «the international norms that have been established and pursued under the cause of respecting the sovereignty of all countries and nations and safeguarding world peace and security are literally a mess of chaos that is swayed by the brutality and high-handedness of the hegemonic forces.»
«We are in the midst of one of the most chaotic and violent worlds since World War II,» he added, comparing the growing alliances between the US or Europe and Asia Pacific countries such as South Korea, Japan and Australia to «fascism in Europe and Asia» during the global conflict that ended in 1945 and warned that never before has there been «such a dangerous and sharp confrontation on the Korean peninsula that could escalate into the most destructive thermonuclear war.»
During a tour of the weapons exhibition, Kim concluded that the «remarkable» achievements that his country was making in the field of national defense «are enough to convince us that we have the ability and security guarantee to proactively deal with not only the various threats that the enemy is currently posing to us but also the prospect security threats that we will face in the future.»
The exhibition, held for the third consecutive year at the Three Revolutions exhibition center in Pyongyang, featured intercontinental and hypersonic ballistic missiles, the Chollima-1 space rocket with which North Korea put its first spy satellite into orbit in 2023, and 240-millimeter multiple rocket launcher system that the regime has transferred to Russia for use in Ukraine, Seoul said this week.
Ties between Pyongyang and Moscow have greatly strengthened in the past year, which has led to the sending of large quantities of North Korean weapons for Russia to use in its invasion of Ukraine.
It has also led to the signing of a strategic alliance treaty in June, under which North Korea appears to have sent 10,000 of its soldiers to the front to support Russian troops. EFE
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