Former Secretary of the Workers Party of North Korea, Hwang Jang-yop, escaped from North Korea. In an interview, he says that Kim Jong-il uses nuclear power to blackmail the world, but has no intention of using it. He adds: "The dictator uses 20% of the national budget for himself, while 50% goes to the military. Which is why they will never fall. "

Tokyo (AsiaNews) – “North Korea will never abandon its nuclear program, but the dictatorship in Pyongyang has no intention of launching a nuclear bomb. This is only used to blackmail the world." Hwang Jang-yop, former secretary of the North Korean Workers Party, who escaped from the Stalinist regime and now lives in the southern Korean peninsula made this comments in a recent interview with the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.

The former political leader, considered a confident of former president Kim Il-sung also explained that the "poverty of the nation derives from the use being made of the national budget. 50% of the money is used for the military, and 20% is at the full and free disposal of Kim Jong-il: he can do what he wants, without telling anyone. With 30% of an already limited budget, the population suffers greatly".