The North Korean leader said Kim Jong Un His country’s recent bombing of roads and railway lines linking it to its southern neighbor represents the “end of the harmful relationship” with Seoul, official North Korean media reported on Friday.
She announced north korea Yesterday, Thursday, its constitution declared the South an “enemy state,” in Pyongyang’s first official confirmation of the legal changes that Kim called for earlier this year.
North Korea’s official news agency said that the North this week blew up roads and railway lines linking it to the South as “an inevitable and legitimate measure taken in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is clearly considered a republic.” South Korea enemy state.”
The agency stated that this operation – according to Kim – “means not only the closure” of transit routes “but also the end of the harmful relationship with Seoul.”
Yesterday, Thursday, the North Korean leader visited the headquarters of the Army’s Second Corps to review defense plans, according to the agency.
On this occasion, Kim stressed that “our army must bear in mind” that South Korea is “a foreign country and a clearly hostile country,” according to the official news agency.
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said last Tuesday that “North Korea blew up parts of the Gyeonggi and Donghae Roads north of the military demarcation line,” in a new episode in the series of escalating tensions between the two countries.
The South Korean army published video clips showing North Korean forces blowing up parts of both lanes of the road and excavators in one of them.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry denounced the “totally abnormal” provocation, noting that Seoul largely financed the construction of these roads.
North Korea has a history of organizing the deliberate destruction of facilities on its territory as a political message. In 2020, it blew up an empty liaison office building that Seoul built just north of the border in response to South Korean civilian leaflet distribution campaigns.
In 2018, North Korea demolished tunnels at its nuclear test site, and in 2008 it blew up a cooling tower in its main nuclear complex when it was conducting previous negotiations to disarm in exchange for aid with Washington and others.
Experts believe that the North leader’s goal is to silence South Korea’s voice in the regional nuclear confrontation, seek direct dealings with the United States, as well as reduce South Korea’s cultural influence and strengthen his rule at home.
It is noteworthy that during a previous era of inter-Korean detente in the first decade of the 21st century, the two Koreas reconnected two roads and two railway lines across their heavily fortified border, but these works were suspended as the two Koreas disagreed over North Korea’s nuclear program and other issues.