New Delhi: In her second angry snap back in the last three days, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister Kim Yo Jong has threatened that her country’s nukes will ‘eliminate’ South Korea if it opts for a ‘military confrontation’.
“If South Korea engages in military confrontation, our combat nuclear forces will inevitably have to do their duty,” Kim Yo Jong was quoted as saying in recent news reports.
Amidst the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, and rising nuclear tensions between neighboring countries North and South Korea, here we’ve brought out five brief pointers to understand the silhouette behind the row.
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1. North Korea has restarted its non-permitted weapons testing with a groundbreaking push this year, launching its first intercontinental ballistic missile at full range just last month.
2. Kim Yo Jong’s retort came in response to South Korea’s defense chief Suh Wook’s recent comments he made to the media last week. Suh had said that S.Korean missiles had ‘the ability to accurately and quickly hit any target in North Korea when there are clear signs of North’s missile launch’.
3. Jong, who is a prominent advisor at Pyongyang has called Suh a ‘lunatic’, calling his recent comments to be a “very big mistake”. She said that “the primary mission for her country’s nuclear forces was to act as a deterrent, but if an armed conflict were to break out, such weapons will be used for eliminating the enemy’s armed forces at a strike”.
4. North Korea had stopped its long-range missiles and nuclear tests after Kim Jong Un and then US President Donal Trump had dimplomatic level talks in 2019.
5. Notably, North Korea will mark the 110th birth anniversary of the founder and grandfather of current leader Kim Jong Un – Kim Il Sung this month.