South Korea should equip the military with weapons that can bring “crushing defeat” to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the state arms procurement agency’s new chief said in an inauguration speech on Thursday.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol tapped longtime bureaucrat and army reserve brigadier general Eom Dong-hwan to serve as head of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) on Wednesday.

“[We] should provide our frontline soldiers with the best weapons systems to guarantee them security and a strong assurance of victory while bringing despair and crushing defeat to forces of foreign invasion such as Kim Jong Un,” Eom