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Kim Yo-jong warns of new military options after Japan’s missile test
Kim Yo-jong warns of new military options after Japan’s missile test
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, said in a KCNA statement on Wednesday that Pyongyang would adopt additional military options after Japan test fired a US made Tomahawk cruise…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, said in a KCNA statement on Wednesday that Pyongyang would adopt additional military options after Japan test fired a US made Tomahawk cruise missile from the destroyer Chokai, The Hindu reported. She said Japan was moving beyond a defensive posture toward pre-emptive and overseas strike capability, pointing also to other Japanese missile tests and a US led drill in the Philippines, and said of Tokyo, 'We should make it regret.' Kim accused the United States of enabling Japan's build-up by supplying the missiles, modifying vessels to fire them and backing the tests, saying the resulting systems place North Korea and its neighbours within range, part of a run of at least six KCNA editorials since July criticising trilateral security cooperation among the three countries. Analysts Yang Moo-jin and Lim Eul-chul said Pyongyang may be using Japan's rearmament to justify its own weapons programme and could follow with further missile or undersea demonstrations, though neither had been confirmed.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Kim's statement is political rhetoric issued through state media, not a report of any missile launch or troop movement, and this account keeps that distinction clear by separating Japan's confirmed test from Pyongyang's own description of what it means. Yang Moo-jin's and Lim Eul-chul's comments are their own reading of North Korean intentions, offered as analysis rather than anything Kim herself confirmed, so a future demonstration stays their prediction rather than an announced plan. The line about making Japan regret its steps is strong language aimed at a domestic and regional audience, and reading it as a specific military threat would go beyond what Kim actually specified. A missile test or undersea display from Pyongyang, should one follow, would turn this warning into a confirmed action rather than a statement.
Source: www.thehindu.com
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