The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, inspected the work of the country's main military plants and made several threatening statements against South Korea.
Kim Jong Un visited military factories and made several statements
The Korean Central Telegraph Agency reported that Kim Jong-un visited military factories for two days - January 8 and 9 - and "expressed great satisfaction" that the factories are "flawlessly carrying out the plan to equip advanced large compounds and main missile units with the latest weapons."
But at the same time, the leader of North Korea stressed that it is necessary to "continually actively accelerate the relentless increase in production" to produce more weapons and military equipment.
Kim Jong-un states, "It is necessary to establish economic and organisational work and the management of production to turn the current year into a year when there will be big changes in the acceleration of the country's preparations for war."
In his speeches, he characterised the Republic of Korea as "the most hostile state for North Korea," which "for a long time, for about 80 years, has madly clung only to malicious confrontation to overthrow our government and regime."
According to Kim Jong-un, if South Korea tries to use armed forces against North Korea or threatens the "sovereignty and security", then he will "without hesitation use the entire arsenal of available means and forces to grind the Republic of Korea into dust completely."
We have such a will, strength and capacity, and we will certainly expand and strengthen them in the future, Kim Jong-un assured.
North Korea threatens to respond to provocations.
Earlier, Kim Yo Jong, the sister and critical ally of leader Kim Jong Un, said that North Korea would immediately launch a military strike in response to any provocation.
According to information from South Korea, on January 7, North Korea again fired about 90 projectiles. At the same time, the North Korean army said that it did not pose a threat to South Korea since the shooting was carried out parallel to the shared border.
For the third day in a row, the North Korean army has been shelling the coastline in the area of islands on the border with South Korea.
By the way, on January 5, North Korea fired about 200 artillery shells near two South Korean islands on the western border — Epheondo and Pyeondo. This forced the residents of the islands to evacuate and the South Korean military to conduct live-fire drills in return.
