North Korea’s Kim accuses US of stoking tension, warns of nuclear war

– North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has accused the United States of fueling tensions and provocations, saying the Korean peninsula has never faced the threat of nuclear war as it has until now, according to state media. NA said on Friday. In a speech at a military exhibition on Thursday. In Pyongyang, Kim said his previous experience negotiating with Washington only made him more hostile to Pyongyang.”Never before have the warring parties on the Korean peninsula faced such a dangerous and intense confrontation that it could escalate into the most destructive thermonuclear war,” Kim said, according to KCNA. According to Kim said. negotiations with the United States, but what we have come to believe from the result is not the willingness of the superpower to stay together, but its absolute position of power and aggressive and hostile policy towards us that can never change.”During US President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, he and Kim held three unprecedented meetings in Singapore, Hanoi, and the Korean border in 2018 and 2019. But their diplomacy did not succeed. Trump has long emphasized his relationship with Kim, saying last month that no concrete outcome has come due to differences between the U.S. demands to give up nuclear weaponsthat the two countries “could have killed millions in a nuclear war” but averted it thanks to their relationship. Yet publicly mentioned Trump’s re-election. In the speech, Kim called for developing and upgrading the weapons to the “highly advanced” and vowed to step up defenses. Capabilities to strengthen the country’s strategic position, KCNA said.