북한, '빨치산 90주년' 야간열병식 개최... 北김정은 "핵무력 더욱 강화…국가이익 침탈시 사명 결행"
North Korea... late Monday night held a military parade... for a key regime anniversary.
And in a speech there, leader Kim Jong-un said North Korea is going to continue developing its nuclear weapons... at the fastest rate possible... and not necessarily limit their use to deterrence... if that is not in the regime's interests.
Han Seong-woo has the details.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended Monday night's military parade at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyeongyang... for the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Revolutionary Army.
According to the regime's Korean Central News Agency, he delivered a speech in which he vowed to continue developing North Korea's nuclear program at the "fastest rate possible" and threatened to use nuclear weapons... if what he called the North's "fundamental" national interests... come under threat, something experts note is a change from previous policies.
"It seems North Korea has now expanded the conditions it has for using nuclear weapons to include other things that threaten its interests such as sanctions."
Kim Jong-un said that although the North's nuclear weapons are fundamentally for deterring war, their use cannot be restricted to that purpose if it puts the regime in what he referred to as an "unfavorable situation."
Based on data from South Korea's Unification Ministry, the North has held twelve military parades since Kim Jong-un came to power, and he has spoken in person at five of them, including the latest one.
South Korean military and intelligence authorities say Monday's parade started at around 10 PM... after a one-hour opening event.
They suspect the parade was the largest the regime has ever held... and that it included some of the regime's new weapons, like the Hwasong-17 intercontinential ballistic missile,... along with an estimated 20-thousand troops and 250 pieces of military equipment in total.
In response to the parade, South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's transition team... called the North's weapons a "real and serious threat" and said the incoming administration will strengthen South Korea's alliance with the United States while moving quickly to boost its defense capabilites against the regime's military threats.
Han Seong-woo, Arirang News.
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2022-04-26, 17:00 (KST)
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