South Korea has reverted to calling North Korea “our enemy” in its latest defense white paper after six years of futile diplomatic efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula under the former administration.
The South Korean Ministry of Defense released its biennial defense policy document on Thursday, the first of its kind under conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol’s administration, who took office in May last year.
The ministry declared North Korea as the country’s enemy, citing the North Korean regime’s labeling of South Korea as “an undoubted enemy” last year and ongoing military threats, Yonhap News Agency reported.
“As the North defined us as an undoubted enemy at the plenary meeting of the ruling party’s Central Committee in December 2022, and continues to pose a military threat without renouncing its nuclear program, the North Korean regime and military—the executor of that threat—are our enemy,” the document reads….