South Korea accuses North of wanting to transform the region into a “Middle East”

Minister of Unification of South Korea Kim Yung Hostated today that North Koreathrough the insistent carrying out of weapons tests, it seems to want to transform the Korean peninsula into a region at perpetual risk of war.like him middle East”.

“North Korea seems to have the intention of making (the peninsula) a region where there are constant risks of military conflicts, such as the middle East“Kim, whose portfolio is responsible for relations with the North, said today in a radio interview.

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“We must not fall into the North Korean trap“, he added in the aforementioned interview in reference to the five weapons tests that the regime has carried out since the beginning of the year, in addition to some artillery practices it carried out on the tense and disputed western maritime border.

Last week Pyongyang carried out three tests with cruise missiles, both off the coast of yellow sea like in the sea Japan (called the West Sea and East Sea, respectively, in the two Koreas).

In turn, Kim, an acquaintance “Hawk” Regarding his approach to relations with the North, he assured that the South government will soon publish a report on the economic situation in North Korea that shows that the public food supply system has collapsed.

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His ministry plans to release the report – for which it interviewed more than 6,300 North Koreans who fled the country – later this month.

Kim’s words come at a time of great tension between the two Koreas, which are technically still at war since the conflict between them (1950-1953) ended with a ceasefire instead of a peace treaty.

The weather worsened especially after North Korean leader Kim Jong Unrecently declared that the neighboring state is the main enemy and that reconciliation between the two countries is impossible and then ordered the destruction of an iconic monument in Pyongyang that extolled a future reunification of the peninsula.

Source: Elcomercio

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