"Terrible Disaster": Kim Jong Un's Sister Warns Seoul Of Its Military Drills (X image@DD_Geopolitics)
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean President Kim Jong Un, slammed South Korea for the recent military drills near the border islands. She said the South must be “suicidal”, and warned about a “terrible disaster”.
After the multiple barrage of trash-carrying balloons from North Korea, Seoul fully suspended a tension-reducing military deal and resumed live fire-drills on border islands, and by the demilitarised zone that divided both Korean Peninsula.
Kim Yo Jong, who is a strong regime spokesperson said that Seoul’s move was an undisguised war game (and) an inexcusable and explicit provocation that aggravates the situation,” as per a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. She said South’s border drill was a suicidal hysteria, and they will have to sustain terrible disaster for it.
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She warned about immediate response from North if the South continue to breach the former’s sovereignty.
The relation between two Koreas is at its lowest points in years, with North ramping up weapons testing as it draws ever closer to Russia.
South Korea and US have accused Pyongyang of supplying arms to Moscow for use in the war in Ukraine, which would violate rafts of sanctions on both countries.
Earlier this year, the nuclear-armed Pyongyang declared Seoul its chief enemy, and has jettisoned agencies designed for outreach and diplomacy with Seoul, while bolstering up security along the shared border.
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Seoul said the North Korean soldiers have crossed the border three times in recent weeks, likely to be accidently, while they were working to lay mines, clear foliage and build likely anti-tank barriers.
The North Korean leader’s sister also criticised trilateral drills between the United States, South Korea and Japan, saying they were “the height of confrontational hysteria”.
“The war drumbeats clearly showed that the US and other hostile forces’ rash manoeuvres for military hegemony in the region have crossed the red line,” she added.
(with inputs from agencies)
