South Korea has called North Korea its enemy for the first time in six years, reviving the label in a biennial defence document that also reported an increase in Pyongyang's stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium.
A South Korean defence paper says the North Korean government and military is the South's "enemy"
The document noted that North Korea has continued reprocessing spent fuel from its reactor and possesses about 70 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium, up from 50 kilograms estimated in the previous report. "Our military is strengthening surveillance as the possibility of an additional nuclear test is rising," the paper said.The document also cited North Korea's passing of a new law that authorises the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons in a broad range of scenarios, and the fact that in December, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called South Korea "our undoubted enemy" in a speech at a key ruling party meeting.
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