North Korea: Kim threatens over nuclear expansion, says focus on bringing US to 'knees'

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un threatened that he will be expanding its nuclear arsenal as he termed the United States as his country's "biggest enemy". He added that North Korea’s external political activities will be focussing on their arch-enemy and the efforts will focus on bringing the US ‘to their knees’. This statement came in just weeks before Joe Biden swears in as the next US President, and after a thunderous relationship between the North Korean leader and the US President Donald Trump. 

'US is our biggest enemy'

Kim and Trump engaged in a dispute followed by a diplomatic relationship that featured headline-making summits and love declared by the President of US, but no major progress took place, with the process deadlocked after a meeting in Hanoi broke up over sanctions relief. Kim told the five-yearly congress of the ruling workers' Party of Korea that Pyongyang should focus and be developed for subverting the US, "the biggest obstacle for our revolution" and "our biggest enemy”, as per official KCNA news agency reports. “No matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,” it quoted him, without mentioning Biden's name.

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North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday presided over the ruling party's Congress, the first during the past five years. On Wednesday, the second day of the meeting, Kim again talked about "improving the people's living standard," the Korean Central News Agency said, and "placing the state defense capabilities on a much higher level". During the opening day, leader Kim Jong Un admitted a failure in his previous economic development plans. 

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The congress is being held during a challenging period of Jong Un's nine-year rule, what he had called "multiple crises". North Korea is one of the poorest countries in Asia, and the already besieged economy is being hammered by pandemic related border closings with China. The fallout from a series of natural disasters last summer and persistent US-led sanctions over the nuclear program have added further to problems.

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