Kim Jong Un pokes his head out of the tank as he unveils a new war machine in light of US military exercises
DICTATOR Kim Jong Un pokes his head out of a tank as he unveils his latest war machine.
The North Korean leader is said to have piloted the armored vehicle while joining his troops during exercises intended as a show of strength in light of US and South Korean military exercises.
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He said the tank was the “most powerful in the world” and told his troops to prepare for war.
Analyst Yang Uk from the Asan Institute for Policy Studies said: “The South Korean-The American training is over, but the North’s is not over.
“They won’t just stand still… they’ve talked about war.”
North and South Korea have been divided since the end of the war WWII.
After years of increasingly bloody incidents at the border, so was South Korea invaded by the North on June 25, 1950.
It is estimated that a total of 2.5 million civilians died in the ensuing war.
The fighting officially ended in 1953 when an armistice was signed and a demilitarized zone was created to separate the north and south.
However, peace was never signed between the two countries.
Technically, the two sides of Korea are still at war.
They are separated by a 260-kilometer-long demilitarized zone, which has been the scene of numerous clashes and skirmishes.
Many military experts believe this the prospect of another war is unlikely but tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul have been extremely high for decades.
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HIGH FLYING KOREA
PRIVATE islands, a series of palaces and a personal harem of thousands of women are not exactly what Karl Marx had in mind in his vision of a workers’ paradise.
But that is exactly what communist despot Kim Jong-un is spending his blood-soaked billions on, while his North Korean citizens live in poverty and fear.
In 2021, the tyrant reportedly demanded that the US to lift sanctions on importing ‘high-class’ alcohol and luxury suits before denuclearization talks could resume.
Park Jie-won, head of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, says the demand for luxury is “not just Kim Jong Un’s own consumption, but to distribute among Pyongyang’s elite”.
Kim’s taste for the finer things in life has been legendary since he became Supreme Leader of North Korea in 2011.
He is estimated to be worth at least $5 billion (£3.6 billion) and, like most billionaires, he likes to spend money on that: on a fleet of luxury vehicles, an extensive property portfolio and the best culinary delights that money can illegally import.
That’s in stark contrast to the estimated 60 percent of North Korea’s 26 million citizens who currently live below the poverty line and struggle to survive.