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Kim Jong Un Brands South Korea a Permanent Enemy While Dangling Conditional Talks to U.S.

At the Workers’ Party congress that closed on 26 Feb 2026, Kim Jong Un rewrote Pyongyang’s playbook by codifying South Korea as an "eternal hostile state," threatening its "complete destruction," yet offering to "get along" with Washington if the U.S. accepts North Korea’s nuclear status.