North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wrapped the year with fresh threats of a nuclear attack on Seoul and orders for a military arsenal build-up to prepare for a war that can “break out at any time” on the peninsula, state media reported Sunday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attends a meeting Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, at the party's headquarters, in Pyongyang, North Korea on December 31, 2023. The North has previously described the deployment of Washington’s strategic weapons – such as B-52 bombers – in joint drills on the Korean peninsula as the “intentional nuclear war provocative moves”. File photo: A rocket carrying a spy satellite Malligyong-1 is launched, as the North Korean government claims, in a location given as North Gyeongsang Province, North Korea on November 21, 2023. The United Nations Security Council has adopted many resolutions calling on North Korea to halt its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes since it first conducted a nuclear test in 2006.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 31, 2023 18:49 UTC