The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the DPRK’s state news agency, reported that Kim visited a special assassination squad last week, specifically trained to target politicians in South Korea. He told the battalion that they may be required to "eliminate the human filth occupying the [South Korean] presidential Blue House, military and the puppet government, all who have committed crimes that cannot be forgiven for all of eternity," according to UPI.
Kim has been threatening war with both Washington and Seoul, particularly after the two latter nations teamed up to fly over the Korean peninsula in a show of military force. Kim was also none too pleased to discover that South Korea had trained a military unit for the express purpose of removing him from power, should the North and the South come to battle.
He went so far as to threaten to drop a hydrogen bomb on Seoul for the insult.
On Wednesday the International Business Times reported that Kim told troops, after Donald Trump was elected president of the US, that, "In highly turbulent conditions, a readiness to fight must prevail during waking and sleeping hours, and all must wholeheartedly take part in training."
The reclusive leader also told soldiers that they would have an "important mission," to "put a sharp dagger in the enemy's heart and to break its back."
Yonhap News reports that Kim has not spoken explicitly about the Trump presidency but has been vocal about retaining his nuclear weapons. "Washington’s hope for North Korea’s denuclearization is an outdated illusion," he said.
Pyongyang, by a per capita metric, has the largest military in the world, with a reported 1,170,000 active-duty troops in a country of less than 25 million.
