The meeting of the North’s top executive body comes two days after its last missile launch, on the fourth of the month.
North Korea contemplates “resuming all temporarily suspended actions,” which could include nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests as announced by the country’s highest government body during a meeting held the day before and reported today by the state media.
According to the North Korean news agency KCNA, during the meeting of the North Korean Workers’ Party politburo, issues of “national defense aimed at promoting and developing the most powerful physical means without delay” were discussed, among which was mentioned reactivate “temporarily suspended actions”.
The regime thus contemplates resuming measures that it paralyzed “to build confidence and on its own initiative” during the talks with Sel and Washington to lower tensions on the peninsula, and after considering that it must prepare for “a long-term confrontation” with the United States.
North Korea announced in 2018 that it would refrain from nuclear and intercontinental missile (ICBM) tests, under the interkorean thawing process which led to negotiations for the denuclearization of the peninsula and the first summit between leaders of Pyongyang and the United States in history.
The dialogue between these two countries remains paralyzed for more than two years, and relations have become tense again as a result of the new North Korean weapons tests in recent days, to which the United States has responded with more sanctions on the regime.
In this sense, Pyongyang accused Washington of “committing the madness” of sanctioning them on “more than 20 occasions, emphasizing that “the current US administration” is trying to suppress its “right to self-defense”, according to today’s KCNA statement.
The eventual resumption of North Korea’s defensive actions discussed during the meeting would have the objective of “doubling the increasingly aggravating hostile actions” by the United States, according to the text.
The policy-making meeting of the Politburo, the highest body of the North Korean Workers’ Party, was chaired by its leader Kim Jong-un at the headquarters of the Central Committee.
North Korea also accused the US of “threaten” your safety by introducing sophisticated weapons into neighboring South Korea, as well as strategic nuclear weapons in the immediate vicinity of the peninsula.
The meeting of the North’s top executive body comes two days after its last missile launch, the fourth of the month, among which were two tests of what Pyongyang claims are hypersonic missiles and different ballistic tests in an effort by the regime to diversify its platforms.
In total, from the beginning of this year, they are six tested projectiles, in a display of sophistication from his arsenal.
The first two tests of the year, held on January 5 and 11, led the United States to impose new sanctions against the Asian country, to which Pyongyang responded with new releases on the 14th and 17th of this month.
This Thursday a closed-door meeting of the United Nations Security Council is scheduled, in which a new round of sanctions by this body against Pioyang could be discussed.
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