Even the message to the United States was not new: Stop your “hostile” attitude and accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, and maybe we might be willing to talk to you. The only surprise lay in Kim’s deep antagonism toward South Korea, making it clear that the demilitarized zone was no longer just a temporary demarcation line but now a wall of deep and unalterable division of the Korean Peninsula into two completely separate states.
søndag 1. mars 2026
Kim Jong Un at party congress builds a wall with South Korea
The Ninth Congress of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party covered ground this past week that was familiar from its last gathering five years ago. Kim Jong Un proclaimed his goals of state-driven economic development, a military buildup focused on nuclear weapons and his singular and unchallenged leadership.
Even the message to the United States was not new: Stop your “hostile” attitude and accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, and maybe we might be willing to talk to you. The only surprise lay in Kim’s deep antagonism toward South Korea, making it clear that the demilitarized zone was no longer just a temporary demarcation line but now a wall of deep and unalterable division of the Korean Peninsula into two completely separate states.
Even the message to the United States was not new: Stop your “hostile” attitude and accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, and maybe we might be willing to talk to you. The only surprise lay in Kim’s deep antagonism toward South Korea, making it clear that the demilitarized zone was no longer just a temporary demarcation line but now a wall of deep and unalterable division of the Korean Peninsula into two completely separate states.
