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The leaflets feature photos of the 'Honorable Marshal' wearing a luxury watch on his wrist. Exposed to the displeasure of the North Korean people is Kim's daughter, who wears a leather jacket from Dior...
The two roads connecting North and South on the Korean peninsula were blown up at the 38th parallel.
Army engineers in North Korea detonated the mines in accordance with Kim Jong-un's plan to cut off all contact with the South. The explosions occurred on the northern side, but the southern artillery responded with several warning shots.
The destruction of the border sections of the two "inter-Korean roads" a symbolic act, since for years no one has been able to travel on them, because Kim Jong-un after the short season of dialogue in 2018, when he sent his sister on a mission diplomatic mission in Seoul and met with US President Donald Trump three times, ended dialogue and any hypothesis of contact between North and South. In his new vision, the South is "enemy number one".
According to some experts on Korean affairs, Kim may have conceived the move as a signal to the United States: he would aim to marginalize South Korea in the event of a new international negotiation on nuclear power, and hinted that he might was willing to discuss directly only with the next American president. The old strategy, which Joe Biden has steadfastly ruled out, may work with Trump. But behind the tensions there is something else.
The action comes at a time when leaflets have been released from the South to the North, showing the luxurious life of leader Kim Jong Un. This has brought out his sister, Kim Yo-jong, who has threatened to destroy Seoul if drones breach the North's airspace again. "Just one more drone would be considered an act of war," Pyongyang says.
On three occasions this month, leaflets rained down on Pyongyang, apparently dropped by an unmanned drone, but it is not clear who dropped them. Kim's sister says she is convinced the plan was hatched by Seoul's military and intelligence, so she saw fit to issue the ultimatum.
North Korean artillery at the 38th parallel has been placed in readiness for an immediate order; Kim Jong-un chaired a meeting of his Security Council on Monday 14 October to "determine the lines of immediate military action".
But how can a few leaflets dropped by an unarmed drone alarm the head of a regime like that of North Korea? The leaflets feature photos of the 'Honorable Marshal' wearing a luxury watch on his wrist (his favourite, according to analysts who obsessively study him, is a $13,400 Swiss IWC Schaffhausen).
Exposed to the displeasure of the North Korean people is Kim's daughter, who wears a leather jacket from Dior: a small gift worth thousands of dollars, with contempt for the endemic poverty of ordinary people in North Korea.
Below the photos, the flyers added a list of how many kilograms of rice and wheat could be bought with the money Kim spent on the watch and jacket. / Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Corriere Della Sera"
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