「攻撃されたら核兵器使う」 金正恩氏、特殊部隊訓練視察

【ソウルＡＦＰ＝時事】北朝鮮の朝鮮中央通信（ＫＣＮＡ）が４日に伝えたところによると、金正恩朝鮮労働党総書記は今週、韓国とその同盟国である米国が領土を攻撃するようなことがあれば「ためらうことなく」核兵器を使用すると述べた。（写真は首都平壌西方にある特殊部隊の訓練基地を視察した金正恩朝鮮労働党総書記）
　首都平壌西方にある特殊部隊訓練施設を視察した際の発言。金氏は「敵が朝鮮民主主義人民共和国の主権を侵害することを目的に武力行使を試みるなら、わが国は核兵器を含む全戦力をためらうことなく使用するだろう」と述べた。
　韓国の尹錫悦大統領は、今週開催された「国軍の日」の軍事パレードで、もし北朝鮮が核兵器を使えば「その日こそが北朝鮮体制の終えんとなる」と演説で述べていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/10/04-19:16）

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would use nuclear weapons without hesitation if attacked by the South and ally the United States, state media reported Friday.
Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in decades, with Seoul this week staging a military parade where it showcased its bunker-busting monster missile and President Yoon Suk Yeol warned Kim that using nukes would mean the end of his regime.
Pyongyang has also been bombarding the South with balloons carrying bags of trash, and a fresh flurry was seen floating over Seoul early Friday by AFP reporters. Seoul's military confirmed it had detected the balloon launches overnight.
If an enemy's forces were encroaching upon the sovereignty of the North, Pyongyang would use without hesitation all the offensive forces it has possessed, including nuclear weapons, Kim said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
Images in state media showed Kim, clad in his customary leather jacket, speaking at a training event for special operations forces.
There, he slammed Yoon for his end of regime comments and clamoring about his country's alliance with the United States.
Seoul, which does not have nuclear weapons of its own, is covered by the US nuclear umbrella, and Washington has stationed tens of thousands of troops in the country since the Korean war ended in 1953 without a peace treaty.
Kim said it was Seoul and Washington who were destroying regional security and peace, KCNA reported, while branding South Korea's leader an abnormal man.
- Military parade -
On Tuesday, fighter jets flew over downtown Seoul and tanks rolled through the streets, as South Korea displayed for the first time its largest ballistic missile, the Hyunmoo-5, which is capable of destroying underground bunkers.
An American B-1B heavy bomber also staged a flyover of the ceremony early Tuesday, flanked by F-15K jets.
Washington periodically deploys nuclear assets to the Korean peninsula, underscoring its protection of the South from Pyongyang's growing threats.
At the event marking South Korea's Armed Forces Day, Yoon said that if the North attempts to use nuclear weapons, it will face the resolute and overwhelming response of our military and the US and Republic of Korea alliance.
That day will be the end of the North Korean regime, he added.
North Korea is expected to to scrap a landmark inter-Korean agreement signed in 1991 at a parliamentary meeting next week, Seoul's unification ministry said Wednesday, as part of Kim's drive to officially define the South as an enemy state.
Earlier this year, Kim called to remove unification-related clauses from the constitution, while abolishing agencies dedicated to improving ties with the South.
Last month, the North also disclosed images of a uranium enrichment facility for the first time, showing leader Kim touring the site as he called for more centrifuges to boost the country's nuclear arsenal.
South Korea's spy agency later said the unprecedented disclosure was directed at the US and that North Korea was believed capable of producing a double-digit number of nuclear weapons.
Last week, a lawmaker told reporters that the National Intelligence Service had warned the North might carry out another nuclear test -- its seventh -- after the US elections in November.