Gridhot. ID - Most people start
the new year by doing positive things or makingpositive New Year resolutions.
But it seems that this does not
apply to Kim Jong Un , the president of North Korea who is known to be a
dictator.
At the beginning of this new
year 2019, Kim Jong Un started by giving a warning to the United States ( US ).
Launching from bbc.com, Kim
Jong Un delivered a warning in the form of this threat through his new year
pidadato which was broadcast on television.
"If the US does not
fulfill its promise in the face of the rest of the world and assert sanctions
and pressures on our republic, we may have no choice but to consider a new way
to protect our sovereignty and interests," Kim said in his new year speech
.
Not only North Korean
television , Kim Jong Un's speech at the beginning of 2019 was also broadcast
in South Korea for the first time.
The annual New Year's Speech is
a tradition taken by Kim from his grandfather, founder of the communist state,
Kim Il-sung.
According to Laura
Bicker, one of the BBC's journalists in Seoul, North Korea's warning to the US
could mean that North Korea is waiting for the US to act in 2019.
If not, then North Korea
will suspend the testing of nuclear weapons.
As previously known, in
June 2018, Kim Jong Un had a meeting with US president Donald Trump to discuss
the issue of denuclearization.
The meeting seems to be
the most historic meeting in 2018.
So far, the meeting
between Trump and Kim Jong Un in June has indeed produced several results.
North Korea is subject to
a series of UN Security Council sanctions related to prohibited nuclear and
ballistic weapons programs.
Kim Jong Un said that
North Korea had promised not to make, use or spread nuclear weapons and had
taken concrete steps to implement this.
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He also said he was ready
to meet Trump again at any time.
Meanwhile, reported by
Kompas.com, so far North Korea has complained about the attitude of the US
which is considered still hard.
Former Deputy Minister of
Unification of South Korea (South Korea) Kim Hyung-seok told AFP, Kim's speech
implied his frustration at the traffic jam.
According to Kim
Hyung-seok, the 35-year-old leader hopes the US will take certain steps after
he decided to destroy his nuclear site.
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However, Washington did
not give a positive attitude.
Kim Hyung-seok said Kim
had an important duty to improve his "socialist economy" policy.
"The increase in
policy will not mean before the sanctions imposed on North Korea are
revoked," said Kim Hyung-seok again.
In a New Year's speech in
2018, Kim wants North Korea to be even more massive in developing nuclear
weapons.
"We must produce
nuclear warheads in bulk, just like ballistic missiles, and accelerate their
placement," Kim said at the time.
However, after that Kim
said that his country would not produce, test or develop nuclear weapons.
Ankit Panda from the
Federation of American Scientists wrote on Twitter that statement was an
evolution in Kim's leadership.
"But of course, that
is one of the many claims made by Kim, and efforts are needed to prove
it," Panda said.
Meanwhile, in the New
Year's speech , there is a unique moment where AFP reports the clock on the
table shows above 00.00.
But during the speech ,
the clock image was blurred and at the end of the speech showed at 1:00 a.m.,
implying the speech had been recorded before. (*)
Source : Tribunnews.com
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