According to the Korean Central News Agency, students and Youth League members are “incensed by the US imperialists’ provocation.”
According to the country’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), hundreds of thousands of young people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have shown a desire to join the military services. The source claimed that this was because of the US’s hostile behaviour against North Korea, which had “reached a point that can no longer be allowed.”
According to the KCNA, more than 800,000 Youth League leaders and young students from all around the nation “ardently petitioned for enrollment and military duty in the People’s Army” on Friday alone. The study states that this figure “continues to climb across the nation.”
Among the educational institutions where students have volunteered to serve in the military, the state-run outlet included Kim Il-sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Hamhung University of Chemical Technology, and Nampo Normal University.
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The young people’s “zeal” comes at a time when US “war maniacs” and “their puppet traitors,” which appears to be South Korea, are launching a campaign to destroy the North, the agency claimed. According to the study, Pyongyang’s sovereignty and security interests have been “aggressively violated” “to the largest level in history” by the two allies.
Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of North Korea, oversaw the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-17, on Thursday and declared that the purpose of the display of power was to “strike terror into foes” and “deter conflict,” as reported by the KCNA.
Three further ballistic missile tests were undertaken by Pyongyang earlier this week.
Kim noted the “open hostility towards the DPRK” that has expressed itself in the two countries holding “reckless” and “large-scale” drills on the Korean Peninsula as the reason for the increase in tests.
It has been made clear time and time again by Pyongyang that it sees such exercises by Washington and Seoul as a buildup to an assault.
The exercises, known as “Freedom Shield,” began on Monday and are scheduled to last into the next week. The two partners dubbed the exercise the biggest of its type in five years and chastised the North for destabilising acts that they claimed called for greater preparedness.
This year has already seen a number of additional military drills between the US and South Korea, some of which used B-52H strategic bombers.
