Kim Jong-un: “We’ll see how far negotiations with the U.S. can go… Confident in the hostile policy towards North Korea.”

“Only the strongest national defense can preserve peace”, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a local industrial plant construction site in Songchon County, South Pyongan Province on the 19th, as reported by the Korean Central News Agency on the 20th. Yonhap News,
, ‘North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reiterated his commitment to strengthening national defense, asserting that his experiences in negotiations with the United States have confirmed their hostile policy towards North Korea.’,
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, ‘According to the Rodong Sinmun, the Workers’ Party’s official newspaper, Kim stated in his speech at the opening ceremony of the military equipment exhibition ‘Defense Development 2024′ that “We have explored all possible avenues of negotiation with the United States,” adding, “What we have ascertained is not a willingness for coexistence from the superpower but a thoroughly forceful stance and an inherently aggressive and hostile policy towards North Korea.” He further emphasized, “The notion often repeated by American politicians that ‘the U.S. is not hostile whatsoever’ has long been perceived by the world as a strange absurdity.”’,
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, ‘Kim attributed the responsibility for the worsening situation on the Korean Peninsula to the United States. He stated, “The extreme situation in the Korean Peninsula region today has not arisen from any misunderstanding of the other side,” explaining, “The current reality continuously reinforces the understanding that only the strongest national defense capable of overwhelming the enemy can preserve peace and ensure solid stability and development.”’,
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, ‘In his speech, Kim emphasized the importance of innovation in military equipment to match the dynamics of modern warfare. He remarked, “As long as there are forces infringing on our sovereignty and as long as the adversaries’ malicious actions continue, we must continue to renew and upgrade various armed equipment to reflect the lessons the modern battlefields teach us,” further stating, “In response to the new aspects of modern warfare and the increasingly dangerous warfare tactics of adversaries, we aim to enhance our self-defense capabilities more offensively and without limit, while modernizing our military technologically and equipping it with more powerful means.”’