Seoul, South Korea CNN — North Korea will no longer seek reconciliation and reunification with South Korea, Kim Jong Un has declared, as his nation vowed to put three new military spy satellites into orbit in 2024.

Kim said inter-Korean relations had become “a relationship between two hostile countries and two belligerents at war,” the state-run news agency KCNA reported.

“It’s time for us to acknowledge the reality and clarify our relationship with the South,” Kim said, adding that if Washington and Seoul were to attempt a military confrontation with Pyongyang, its “nuclear war deterrent will not hesitate to take serious action.”

“I believe that it is a mistake that we must no longer make to deal with the people who declare us as ‘the main enemy’ and seek only opportunities for ‘[our] regime collapse’ and ‘unification by absorption’ by collaborating for reconciliation and unification,” Kim added.

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    Why would Best Korea, the socialist paradise resisting US imperialism, even want to unify with those southern US-puppeted dogs? Critical support for Comrade Kim’s Divine Monarchy! /s

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      6 months ago

      I am genuinely curious if kim et al. actually believes this “norh korea is the main enemy of south korea and the world” or is it just propaganda and they are aware that the world doesn’t give a rat’s ass about north korea, as long as they leave us alone.

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        I’m pretty sure Kim knows at least. He grew up in Switzerland after all and speaks Korean with a Swiss accent, according to some sources

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          speaks Korean with a Swiss accent, according to some sources

          Are there not any videos of him speaking that a typical Korean could confirm or deny that claim?

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            Yeah, that’s why I added “according to some sources”, I can’t speak Korean, so I can’t verify it

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    Unfortunately not too surprising, anyone with eyes in the situation could have told you this was the case. Could even be said Neither country wants Reconciliation.

    The Kims wants to maintain their feudal kingdom and South Korea doesn’t want to pay to bring millions of North Koreans forward into the modern day. I think it was Escape From Camp 14 or the Aquariums of Pyongyang where the defector author couldn’t belive the average south response to the north was pretending the country didn’t exist.

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        6 months ago

        Those conflicts opening up recently are also encouraged by Russia as a strategy to destabilize, distract, and reroute resources away from Ukraine as well as reinforce their other motives

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          I’d not give them that much credit. But many individual fuckheads, including their partners, saw this and thought their own ambitions can fly under the radar or be a new norm. Many hostile actors want to do their stuff without any attention

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    His statements are so unrealistic that I always think this is just an excuse to buff his military against someone else, he’s officially good friends with, but doesn’t trust and fears invasion.