Kim Jong-un promises more satellite launches
17 Feb 2016 4:50 AM IST
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has promised to launch more satellites into space amid widespread condemnation of last week’s long-range rocket launch, the media reported on Monday.
At a banquet on Saturday, Kim congratulated the scientists, technicians, workers and officials who contributed to the successful launch of the Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite on February 7, noting that it came at a complex time “in which the hostile forces were getting ever more frantic to suffocate” the nation, EFE news reported citing the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The leader then called for scientific research “to hit a higher target with the present great success as a springboard for greater victory and, thus, launch more working satellites” in the future.
Attendees of the event included First Lady Ri Sol-ju, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly Kim Yong-nam, and top military official Hwang Pyong-so.
Pyongyang’s February 7 rocket launch has been widely criticised by the international community who have widely viewed it as a disguised ballistic missile test. The launch came just a month after North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test.
Kim Jong-un called ‘the Hitler of Asia’ by politician
Now Kim Jong-un has another moniker to add to his list of nick names — the Hitler of Asia. A South Korean politician has called for the world to take drastic action on Kim Jong-un, describing him as a “potential 21st century Hitler with nuclear weapons”.
Ha Tae-kyung, of the Saenuri Party, reportedly told South Korean radio YTN that it was time President Park Geun-hye came up with a plan to eliminate Kim Jong-un for the sake of world peace. “We have to be determined to carry out Kim Jong-un’s termination and if we make it so, we only have four to five years to carry out the plan,” the report translated on nknews.org reads. “If such a plan is not carried out in time, Kim Jong-un may be the 21st century’s Hitler with the nuclear weapons in his hands. “Terminating Kim will make everyone happy, 70 million Koreans will be happy and so will China and Japan as well. Then why shouldn’t we carry it out?”
The stinging attack comes just days after North Korea launched a long-range rocket in a move that was widely condemned as a disguised ballistic missile test.
The act further escalated tensions with South Korea, which was already on high alert following Pyongyang’s announcement last month that it had carried out a “successful” hydrogen bomb test — its fourth nuclear blast.
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