North Korea honored Kim Jong Un’s leadership in the development of nuclear weapons, lauded his political achievements, and displayed new portraits and exhibitions. North Korea is commemorating the ten years of Kim Jong Un as leader of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK).
After his father, Kim Jong Il, died in December 2011, Kim became the supreme commander of the military. He is also thought to have assumed control.
The younger Kim was elected as the top party and state leader ten years ago on Monday. For the entirety of the one-party state’s history, the Kim family has likewise reigned.
Celebrations
Choe Ryong Hae, a member of the WPK Central Committee’s Presidium and one of Kim’s most senior officials, complimented the North Korean leader as “a gifted thinker and theoretician, outstanding statesman, and peerlessly great commander” in a speech at a national assembly on Sund
The celebrations kicked off a week of commemorations that will culminate on Friday. It is the 110th anniversary of the birth of North Korea’s founder and Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung.
Commercial Satellite Imagery showed the North Korean troops rehearsing for a military parade that could take place this week. According to analysts, there are hints that North Korea may demonstrate its ICBMs at the event.
North Korea raised alarm in Seoul, Tokyo, and Washington last month when it conducted a full ICBM launch for the first time since 2017, breaking a self-imposed moratorium on such testing.
North Korea’s nuclear test site has seen new construction. Thereby, sparking fears that it will soon test a bomb for the first time since 2017. It declared last week that it opposes war. But it will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons if attacked by South Korea.
Choe praised Kim for turning North Korea into “a full-fledged military power equipped with all-powerful physical means of self-defense”. He also called him “a peerless patriot and a great defender of peace.”
Immortal leadership
North Korea also conducted four of its six nuclear tests under Kim’s leadership and produced enormous intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of striking any place in the United States, according to analysts.
Despite tremendous challenges, Choe added, Kim had ushered in a new era for North Korea as a powerful socialist nation prospering and developing with self-sufficiency and self-reliance.
Kim has promised to improve inhabitants’ lives and try to rebuild North Korea’s economy. International sanctions, COVID-19 lockdown measures, and severe weather in recent years have hit it hard. UN organizations predict humanitarian crises.
On Sunday, state media revealed a rare new official photo of Kim. It announced that a Pyongyang museum had inaugurated a new exhibition to highlight his “immortal leadership” achievements.
On Twitter, Colin Zwirko, an analytical correspondent with NK News, which monitors North Korea, wrote, “Ten years is a fine time for Kim to try and boost his cult of personality even higher.”