The South Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeolwarned today that South Korea “will punish much more harshly” to North Korea in case of attack, some words that come shortly after it became known that the northern leader, Kim Jong-unhas urged to classify Seoul as the main enemy of his country in the Constitution.
“Yeah North Korea provokes us, we will punish much more harshly“said Yoon during a meeting of his Cabinet held today in Seoulas reported by the Presidential Office.
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A few hours earlier the North Korean media published the words of Kim Jong-un in the parliamentary session held on Monday, in which he asked to review the Magna Carta to define South Korea as “hostile country number one”, as well as the need to “occupy, repress and claim” South Korean territory in the event of war.
The North Korean leader’s speech not only represents a new example of the hostile dialectic that the regime has intensified in recent weeks, but also, in the opinion of experts, another milestone within the profound strategic and diplomatic turn that it seems to be opting for. Pyongyang since the failure in 2019 of negotiations on denuclearization with USA.
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Since then, the regime has opted to modernize its army, reject offers of dialogue and get closer to China and Russiawith whom it has exchanged weapons, while Seoul and Washington have reinforced their deterrence mechanisms and military cooperation, which has brought the peninsula to new historical levels of tension.