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Expressing skepticism over the resumption of the stalled six-party talks, a top North Korean military official has warned that Pyongyang will continue to conduct armed provocations against South Korea, Yonhap News said Wednesday.
“Ri Yong-ho, chief of the Korean People’s Army General Staff, appeared on Channel 3 on Nov. 25, two days after the attack on Yeonpyeong Island. He said the North has made sincere efforts in participating in the six-ways talks, but the international community has been indifferent,” Kim Heung-kwang, founder of North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, was quoted as saying by Yonhap.
Pyongyang will continue attacks on South Korea and does not want another round of talks with the United States, Ri said.
The North has produced a series of belligerent comments since the four-day joint South Korea-U.S. naval drills began Sunday.
Kim also told the news agency that the leadership of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party ordered provincial authorities to stage rallies denouncing the United States and prepare for possible war.
Pundits say Ri, who was promoted to vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party in September along with North Korean heir Kim Jong-un, may have masterminded last week’s artillery attack on the South Korean island near the maritime border in the West Sea.
