[Interview file] North Korea chooses "harder frontal breakthrough"... There is no nuclear abandonment

The 8th Labor Party Congress in North Korea closed yesterday (12th).

Since it started on the 5th, it lasted for 8 days.

The motto of the party congress put forward by North Korea was'working, fighting, and moving forward', but it seems that it has evaluated the past over a long period of time and made plans for the next five years.

Labor Party Secretary Kim Jong-un delivered a speech on the closing day of the party congress.

We talked a lot about it, but there are two main things that interest us.

First, there is no nuclear abandonment.

General Secretary Kim Jong-un emphasized that "we must take as an important task to further strengthen the national defense force in mass," and emphasized that "we must do everything to develop the strongest military power while strengthening the nuclear war deterrent."

I didn't talk much about nuclear weapons, but as Secretary General Kim's decision to ``completely carry out the project evaluation and reporting tasks of the Party Central Committee'' was adopted at the party conference, the will for the nuclear program was once again confirmed throughout the party and nationwide.

General Secretary Kim Jong-un announced plans to improve various types of nuclear capabilities, including the development of solid fuel ICBM, the ability to preemptively strike nuclear against the United States, and design of nuclear submarines in the'Party Central Committee's Business Evaluation Report'.

The second point to note is that in this context, North Korea has opted for a more difficult head-on breakthrough.

General Secretary Kim Jong-un emphasized the importance of economic construction, saying, "Socialist economic construction is the most important revolutionary task for which we (North Korea) should focus our all-out force today," and "extraordinarily increase the subjective and internal powers" to face all difficulties. As we break through, we must open a new path for advancement.”

"Even if the hostile forces are trying to block our (North Korea) path more madly," he said, "To achieve a revolutionary advance by achieving a new victory in the cause of socialism, we must prepare for a more difficult frontal breakthrough."

The fact that Secretary General Kim emphasized the importance of economic construction, but emphasized self-reliance rather than cooperation with the outside, demonstrated his determination not to give up nuclear weapons for the sake of the economy.

This is because it is difficult to obtain cooperation from the outside world while continuing to pursue nuclear weapons.

Some expectations that “North Korea will pursue denuclearization because it wants to build an economy” needs to be revised.

Another point to note is Kim Yeo-jeong's discourse that came along with the closing report of the party conference.

Kim Yeo-jeong said that South Korea is "expressing hostile awareness," aiming at the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea watching the situation in North Korea's late-night fever. I accused him.

In addition, he criticized South Korea as "bizarre tribes that are difficult to understand" or "special nerds", arguing that "it must be calculated after all."

At this party meeting, he was eliminated as a candidate for the Political Bureau, and the name of the discourse appears to have been relegated to a notch since it was not the existing ``first vice-president,'' but the vice-president, but it showed that Kim Yeo-jeong still plays an important role in inter-Korean relations.

Since Kim Yeo-jeong is in a special position as Kim Jong-un's younger sister, it is expected that he will continue to play the role of a substantial number two regardless of the position.