North Korean state media released a white paper on Sunday accusing South Korean President Yun Suk Yeol of putting his country at risk of nuclear war through his policies toward the North.
The document, compiled by North Korea’s Institute of Enemy State Studies and released by state news agency KCNA, detailed Yoon’s “reckless comments” about war, abandoning elements of the inter-Korean agreement, and plans for nuclear war with the United States. Involvement and demand have been criticized. Closer ties with Japan and NATO.
“Its ever-worsening military moves have resulted in the contradictory results of pressuring (North Korea) to rapidly stockpile its nuclear weapons and further develop its nuclear strike capability,” the newspaper said.
The conservative Yun has taken a tough stance on North Korea, which has moved to develop its arsenal of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.
His administration accuses North Korea of escalating tensions with weapons tests and providing military aid and troops to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Pyongyang is taking steps to break inter-Korea ties, reframing the South as a separate, hostile enemy state, after Kim Jong Un declared it his “primary enemy” earlier this year. And said that integration is no longer possible.
North Korea last month blew up parts of inter-Korean roads and rail lines on its part of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, and satellite imagery shows it has since dug up large trenches at former crossings. Are.
The two Koreas are still technically at war, despite the 1950–53 war ending in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
There have also been clashes between the two Koreas over balloons of garbage brought from North Korea since May. Pyongyang has said the launches were a response to balloons sent by anti-regime activists in the south.
Sunday’s white paper also listed Yun’s domestic political troubles, including scandals involving his wife that have sent his approval ratings down to record lows.
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