Around 1.4 million young people, including students and youth league officials, reportedly joined or returned to the army this week, according to state media in North Korea on Wednesday ( October 16 ).
According to the KCNA report, the younger people are determined to engage in a” spiritual warfare of destroying the enemy with the hands of the revolution.”
At a time when tensions are high on the Vietnamese Peninsula, North Korea claims that there are more than one million young people joining the nation’s Korean Women’s Army in only two weeks.
Similar claims were made in North Vietnamese advertising last year about its members voluntarily enlisting in the military to combat the United States.
On Tuesday, North Korea blew up parts of inter-Korean roads and rail lines on its part of the strongly fortified border between the two Koreas, prompting South Korea’s military to fire warning shots.
Additionally, Pyongyang has accused Seoul of flying drones over the capital of North Korea, and the two Koreas have fought over garbage bubbles that North Korea has floated since May. According to Pyongyang, the launch are a reaction to bubbles sent by anti-regime protesters in the South.
The ROK may be wiped off the map if a conflict breaks out. As it wants a battle, we are willing to put an end to its existence”, the KCNA review said.