Kim Jong-un Says America Is North Korea’s “Greatest Enemy” | World

The statement comes less than two weeks after Joe Biden’s inauguration as president of the United States and after a turbulent relationship between Kim and Donald Trump, who is about to resign.

Kim and Trump first engaged in a war of words and mutual threats, until an extraordinary diplomatic “bromance” emerged that included headline-winning summits and declarations of love from the US president.

However, no substantial progress has been made, with the process stalled after a meeting in Hanoi resulted in a deadlock on sanctions relief and what North Korea would be willing to give up in return.

Pyongyang “must focus and develop on subverting America, the greatest obstacle to our revolution and our greatest enemy,” Kim told the ruling party’s five-year congress, according to the official KCNA news agency.

“No matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,” he said, referring to the United States, without mentioning Biden’s name.

Pyongyang has invested large amounts of resources in developing its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, which it claims are necessary to defend itself against a possible US invasion.

Nuclear programs have advanced rapidly under Kim, including his most powerful nuclear blast yet and missiles capable of reaching the entire United States, at the cost of increasingly severe international sanctions.

The country has completed plans for a nuclear-powered submarine, Kim said, something that would shift the strategic balance.

“A new planning investigation for a nuclear powered submarine has been completed and is expected to enter the final examination process,” he explained at the congress.

North Korea should “advance further in nuclear technology” and develop light and small nuclear warheads “to be applied differently depending on the objectives,” he added.

The comments are in the work report of the meeting, which lasted nine hours over three days and was reported in detail by KCNA for the first time.

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