North Korea does not want war, but if South Korea chooses armed conflict or if it launches a pre-emptive strike then the DPRK's nuclear forces will be activated and strike it, the powerful sister of the country's leader Kim Jong Un, Kim Yo Jong, asserted yesterday.
Ms. Kim, a senior government and ruling party official, said she thought the recent statements by South Korea's defense minister about a possible attack on North Korea were a very big mistake, according to the North Korean state news agency KCNA.
South Korean Defense Minister Gen. Sha Wook, said Friday that Seoul has several missiles with range, accuracy and power that give it the ability to hit any target in North Korea.
Pyongyang has multiplied its missile tests since the beginning of the year. Officials in Seoul and Washington fear it is preparing to resume nuclear weapons tests, which it suspended in 2017, as the deadlock in negotiations over denuclearization of the Korean peninsula remains.
The day before yesterday, on Sunday, Ms. Kim and other North Korean officials issued statements condemning the South Korean NSA and threatened that Pyongyang would destroy key targets in South Korea if Seoul takes dangerous military actions such as pre-emptive strikes.
In her second statement yesterday, Ms. Kim stressed that Pyongyang does not want war because it would mean the peninsula would be largely destroyed, and does not consider Seoul its main enemy. In other words, this means that unless the South Korean army goes on an attack against our state, it will not be considered a target of any attack by us, she insisted.
But if South Korea, for whatever reason - whether blinded by misjudgment or not - chooses military actions such as the `preemptive strikes' he (Defense Minister Sa Wook) talked about, the situation will change, Ms. Kim added. In that case, South Korea will become a target. If South Korea invades even an inch of North Korea, she added, it will face unimaginably horrific destruction as Pyongyang's nuclear forces do their duty, she added.
This is not just a threat. This is a detailed explanation of our response to any defiant military action by South Korea, Ms. Kim continued, stressing that Seoul can avoid this fate by abandoning the fantasies of launching a pre-emptive attack against the nuclear-armed North Korean state.
Source: APM
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