(Seoul) North Korea will adopt its “hardest” strategy against the United States, which it accuses of being the “most reactionary” country in the world, the official KCNA news agency reported on Sunday, after the conclusion of an important meeting of the ruling party.
Posted at 8:43 a.m.
This high mass of the Workers’ Party, chaired by leader Kim Jong-un, took place from Monday to Friday, according to KCNA, ahead of the New Year traditionally marked by a speech by the North Korean leader.
“The United States is the most reactionary country, which considers anti-communism to be its invariable state policy,” indicates the official media in a report of the discussions in English.
The party also criticized the increasingly close relations between neighboring South Korea, Japan and the United States, saying these partners had become “a nuclear military bloc for the purposes of aggression.”
He also called South Korea an “anti-communist outpost of the United States” in the region, while the North Korean regime was built on this ideology.
Faced with this situation, Kim Jong-un thus “clarified” the strategy to adopt to implement “the harshest anti-United States countermeasure, to be launched aggressively,” reported KCNA, without giving any details. details.
Such Workers’ Party congresses, as well as Mr. Kim’s speeches to North Korean officials, typically serve as a platform for Pyongyang to make major policy announcements.
North Korea resolutely opposes the United States and regularly berates South Korean leaders, accusing them of being “puppet” of the Americans. Conversely, it is moving closer to Russia, with which it signed a mutual defense pact in June that came into force at the beginning of the month.
During their meeting, members of the ruling party also called for strengthening relations with “friendly” countries.
Pyongyang and Moscow have strengthened their ties since the latter launched a war against Ukraine in February 2022.
The United States and major allies denounced North Korea’s “direct” support for Russia, saying it represented a “dangerous widening” of the conflict.
Pyongyang is accused of supplying troops and military equipment to Moscow, with Westerners fearing that Russia will offer it assistance, particularly economic and technological, in exchange.
