Kim: South Korea ‘our principal enemy’

At their fingertips: North Korea’s Kim has said that his country will have ‘no hesitation’ in using ‘all means and forces’ at its disposal against its southern neighbour if provoked, including deploying its nuclear weapons. — AP

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called South Korea “our principal enemy” and threatened to annihilate it if provoked, as he escalates his inflammatory rhetoric against Seoul and the United States before their elections this year.

Experts say Kim will likely further raise animosity with weapons tests to try to influence the results of South Korea’s parliamentary elections in April and the U.S. presidential election in November.