The influential sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong Un is rattling nerves in South Korea — by threatening navy action and accusing activists of sending anti-Pyongyang pamphlets across the border.
Kim Yo Jong on Saturday explained South Korea as “the enemy” and warned the place would shortly see the collapse of a “useless” inter-Korean liaison office at the border.
She stated North Korea’s military services would identify how to retaliate for the activists’ propaganda leaflet campaign concentrating on North Koreans.
“By exercising my electric power authorized by the supreme chief, our social gathering and the condition, I gave an instruction to the arms of the office in demand of the affairs with enemy to decisively have out the upcoming motion,” she stated in a assertion carried by the North’s formal Korean Central News Agency.
“If I drop a hint of our subsequent strategy the (South Korean) authorities are nervous about, the suitable to having the subsequent action versus the enemy will be entrusted to the Common Workers of our army,” she explained.
“Our military, too, will determine some thing for cooling down our people’s resentment and certainly carry out it, I believe.”
Kim, the very first vice division director of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee, has attained considerable power around the yrs and was even rumored to be Kim Jong Un’s successor back in April when speculation swirled more than the state of the ruler’s wellness.
The partnership amongst North and South Koreas has deteriorated in recent months, with North Korean officials expressing irritation over stalled nuclear talks with the Trump administration — conversations supported by South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
With Submit wires
