Kim Jong Un visits military units 9 times for past month

Kim Jong Un visits military units 9 times for past month. December. 05, 2016 07:10. by Sung-Ha Joo, Young-A Soh zsh75@donga.com,sya@donga.com. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited military units by nine times for the past month, increasing its threats to the South. North Korea's Korean Central News Agency reported on Sunday that Mr. Kim observed the 2016 contest for commanding officers of North Korea’s Air Force and Anti-Air Force of the Korean People’s Army. Without mentioning the exact date of the contest, the KCNA quoted Kim as saying that if a war breaks out, such a deadly strike should be inflicted upon South Korean forces and destroy military bases to open routes to our Army advancing into the South. In the competition, formations of chasers and light airplanes were tasked with striking and bombing a circle shaped ground target. The North Korean leader took photos with the winners of that day.

This made his ninth visit to the military sites since North Korean news media reported on Nov. 4 that he made an inspection visit to the special operation battalion directly under the North Korean People’s Army’ Military Unit 525. Kim Jong Un spent his time in visiting military sites during the whole month of November. His wording about threating the South got stronger each day and he even mentioned that "move south" and “make a clean sweep of South Korea."

"South Korea tries to plot military provocations to save the President Park Geun-hye who is on the verge of getting impeached," a spokesman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said. “The South prompts the North to engage in shocking military conflicts between the two Koreas in order to suppress South Koreans’ demand for Park Geun-hye’s resignation and to shift the focus on security issues to save her from the crisis of destruction.”

In the meantime, Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Sunday that China began to prepare for the collapse of Kim Jong Un regime, war, or other sudden changes of North Korea in full force. "Jilin province began to secure food storehouses and asylum camps in response to inflow of refugees from North Korea," Yomiuri said by quoting multiple sources of China-North Korea border area. "China could be concerned that the Korean Peninsula could be out of control if the Kim Jong Un regime fails to withstand current situations, after a vicious cycle of the North's nuclear and missile programs and sanctions against the North."