Kim Jong Un Supreme Leader of North Korea described his ongoing relational policy with Washington, calling for dialogue and confrontation.
He suggested policies had changed under President Joe Biden saying, “policy tendency of the newly emerged US administration”, the Korean Central News Agency said; thus he said his country “Must prepare for dialogue and confrontation with the US.”
According to the Korean Central News Agency report, the Korean leader “stressed the need to get prepared for both dialogue and confrontation, especially to get fully prepared for confrontation in order to protect the dignity of our state” and reliably guarantee a “peaceful environment.”
He “called for sharply and promptly reacting to and coping with the fast-changing situation and concentrating efforts on taking stable control of the situation on the Korean peninsula”, the news agency reported
Pyongyang had already accused Biden of pursuing a “hostile policy” and saying it was a “big blunder” for the veteran Democrat to say he would deal with the threat posed by the North’s nuclear program “through diplomacy as well as stern deterrence”.
Earlier in 2019, the North Korean leader said Biden should be “beaten to death with a stick”.
President Joe Biden declared he would not meet the Korean leader face-to-face as former President Trump had done unless the terms change dramatically.
During a visit to Washington last month by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Biden said he “would not meet” Kim unless there was a concrete plan for negotiating on Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal.
President Biden sneered at Donald Trump’s friendly relationship with Kim, saying he “would not do what had been done in the recent past. I would not give him all he’s looking for — international recognition”.
The White House announces it is now attempting “a calibrated practical approach” — strategic jargon, it seems, for being realistically low-key, while open-minded.
“We understand where previous efforts in the past had difficulties and we’ve tried to learn from those,” a senior White House official said.
North Korea has carried out six atomic bomb tests since 2006. It is under various sets of global sanctions for its banned weapons programs, which the Korean leader is still determined to continue.
A report from US intelligence experts released in April said North Korea could resume nuclear tests this year as a way to force President Biden’s government to return back to negotiation.
On 3 September 2017 North Korea conducted by far its largest nuclear test to date, at its Punggye-ri test site. In 2018, after meeting with former President Donald Trump face-to-face along with South Korean President Moon Jae-In, he seemed to have quietened down.
Kim Jong-Un is a North Korean politician. He has been the Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is the second child of Kim Jong-il, who was North Korea’s second supreme leader from 1994 to 2011, and Ko Yong-hui. He is the grandson of Kim Il-Sung, who was the founder and first supreme leader of North Korea from its founding in 1948 until his death in 1994.
From late 2010, Kim Jong-un was viewed as a successor to the leadership of North Korea. Following the elder Kim’s death in December 2011, state television announced him as the “Great Successor”. Kim is the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
In July 2012, Kim was elevated to the highest rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army, strengthening his position as Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. North Korean state media often refers to him as “the Marshal” or “Dear Respected Leader”. He has promoted the policy of byungjin, similar to Kim Il-Sung’s policy from the 1960s, referring to the simultaneous development of both the economy and the country’s nuclear weapons program. Kim’s leadership has followed the same cult of personality as his grandfather and father. In 2014,
He is recognized for dictatorial control and cruelty. A UNHRC report suggested that Kim could be put on trial for crimes against humanity. He has ordered the purge or execution of several North Korean officials. He is also broadly believed to have ordered the 2017 assassination of his half-brother, Kim Jong-Nam, in Malaysia.
He has led over an extension of the consumer economy, construction projects, and tourist attractions. Kim also expanded North Korea’s nuclear program which led to sharpened tensions in the 2017–2018 North Korea crisis. In 2018 and 2019, Kim took part in a diplomatic process, meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-In and US President Donald Trump.
He has claimed success in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea, although many experts doubt the country has had no cases altogether. Rumors are circulating that people found to be positive with COVID-19 are immediately shot dead, and this needs investigation, but who in the world can enter the iron-clad nation to find out?