Pyongyang, North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un claimed that the United States “main enemyor “from his country, a provocative statement against the world’s leading power with less than two weeks to go before Joe Biden is inaugurated as president.
Kim Jong-un also assured that his country will equip itself with a nuclear submarine, the official KCNA agency reported Saturday.
Pyongyang should focus on ‘controlling and subjugating America, the greatest obstacle to the development of our and our revolution main enemyhe said during the ruling party’s eighth congress, the agency said.
Kim Jong Un made this statement 12 days after Joe Biden assumed the position of president, on January 20, and after maintaining a tumultuous relationship with outgoing president Donald Trump.
After insults and threats of nuclear war, Kim Jong-un and President Trump made an extraordinary rapprochement, with historic and symbolic encounters.
But no progress has been made on the thorny issue of Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic programs. And negotiations have come to a standstill since the resounding failure of the second summit between the two leaders in Hanoi at the end of February 2019.
Lifting of sanctions
One reason for this stagnation is the lack of consensus on the concessions to be made North Korea in exchange for lifting the imposed international sanctions.
But Trump has never reached the level of hatred North Korea feel for Joe Biden, a “crazy dog” who deserves to be “beaten to death”. For his part, the President-elect called Kim a “bully.”
“Whoever is in power in the United States will never change the true intent of their policy against North Korea,” he said. Kim Jong Un without mentioning Joe Biden, according to KCNA.
Words that amount to provocation to the new US administration.
“It’s the bill for the Singapore and Hanoi summits,” tweeted Carnegie Endowment analyst Ankit Panda. “And it’s up to Biden’s administration to pay for it,” he estimated.