North Korean leader rejects reconciliation or reunification with South Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this Sunday rejected reconciliation or reunification with South Korea, considering it a mistake, North Korea’s state news agency KCNA reported.

“I believe that this is a mistake that we should not make. Viewing people who call us our worst enemies as a person with whom we should seek reconciliation and unification,” a government official noted at the final plenary meeting of the Workers’ Central Committee at the end of the year . ‘North Korea Party.

Also, according to KNCA, it was decided that Pyongyang should launch three new spy satellites in 2024 to strengthen its military capabilities.

“The stated task is to launch three additional reconnaissance satellites in 2024,” KCNA noted.

After two consecutive failures in May and June, North Korea successfully launched its first military surveillance satellite into orbit in November.

Pyongyang said it provided images of key military installations in the United States of America (US) and South Korea, but did not disclose them.

Successive United Nations (UN) resolutions have prevented North Korea from testing ballistic technology.

South Korean intelligence agencies believe the North Korean government received crucial technological assistance from Russia, the country Kim Jong Un visited in September. On this occasion, the North Korean leader met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

During a meeting of the central committee of North Korea’s Workers’ Party, Kim Jong Un said the Korean Peninsula was in the grip of a “persistent and uncontrollable crisis situation” that was being blamed on the United States and South Korea.

Therefore, the ruler ordered a reorganization of the administration managing relations with the South in order to “fundamentally change direction.”

In 2018, the two Koreas began a rapprochement process characterized by three meetings between Kim Jong Un and then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in, which were disrupted.

At the start of the party meeting, the North Korean leader had already called for “accelerating the country’s preparations for war,” including its nuclear weapons program, in the face of “confrontational maneuvers” by the United States and its allies.