North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday (Monday) ordered his country’s senior military officials to annihilate South Korea and the United States if they begin an armed confrontation against his country, according to North Korea’s official news agency.
During a meeting with North Korea’s senior leaders in Pyongyang, Kim said: “If the enemy chooses military confrontation and provocation against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, our army must strike it with a fatal blow to completely wipe it out by mobilizing the most powerful means… without a moment’s notice.” Frequency,” according to Agence France-Presse.
In a long speech on the same day at the end of a major year-end meeting setting the country’s strategic directions, the North Korean leader issued new threats to launch nuclear strikes against Seoul and ordered the acceleration of military preparations for “a war that could break out at any time on the peninsula.”
Kim considered that Washington was behind various types of military threats and ordered the mobilization of all means and material forces, including nuclear force, in case of an emergency against South Korea.
He pointed out that he no longer seeks reconciliation and reunification with the South because America and South Korea have sparked an ongoing, uncontrollable crisis.
South Korea responses
In his New Year’s Day address on Monday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he would strengthen his military’s preemptive strike, missile defense, and retaliatory capabilities in response to the North Korean nuclear threat.
“The Republic of Korea is building genuine, lasting peace through strength, not a submissive peace that is dependent on the goodwill of the adversary,” Yoon said, using South Korea’s official name.
At the party meeting, Kim called South Korea “a hemiplegic malformation and colonial subordinate state” whose society is “tainted by Yankee culture.” 
He said his military must use all available means including nuclear weapons to “suppress the whole territory of South Korea” in the event of a conflict.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry warned in response that if North Korea attempts to use nuclear weapons, South Korean and U.S. forces will punish it overwhelmingly, resulting in the end of the Kim government.
KCNA said North Korean officials held talks on Monday to implement an order by Kim to disband or reform organizations handling relations with South Korea to fundamentally change the principle and direction of the North’s struggle against the South.
There was no immediate explanation of how that might alter inter-Korean relations, which have been stalled for an extended period.
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