North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister has reacted angrily to a momentous nuclear agreement reached between the United States and South Korea, alleging it will only worsen security.
On Wednesday, April 26, the governments of Washington and Seoul reached a deal at the White House to deter North Korean aggression, including plans to deploy a nuclear-armed submarine in South Korea for the first time since the 1980s.
Kim Yo Jong condemned the arrangement as a “typical product of their extreme anti-North Korean hostile policy, reflecting the most hostile and aggressive will of action,” according to state-run KCNA.
Yo-Jong, vice department director of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s Central Committee, stated, ‘South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s recent visit to Washington provided us with a much clearer understanding of the root cause and physical entity disturbing the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula and the region.’
“As such, it will only expose the peace and security of Northeast Asia and the rest of the world to greater danger, and it is an act that should never be tolerated.”
She slammed US President Joe Biden’s warning that any nuclear assault on the US and its allies will result in the demise of the North Korean leadership, calling it a “nonsensical remark from a person in his dotage.”
“The more the enemies are dead set on staging nuclear war exercises, and the more nuclear assets they deploy in the vicinity of the Korean peninsula, the stronger the exercise of our right to self-defence will become,” she was reported as saying by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
She called Biden a “old man with no future” who is “irresponsibly brave.”
‘We cannot let pass or dismiss the fact that the enemy state’s chief executive formally and personally uttered the phrase “the end of regime” in front of the world,’ she said.
‘Would we just chalk it up to the man’s senility?’
Yo-Jong referred to Washington as the North’s “most hostile adversary,” warning that he should be prepared for “far too great an after-storm that will not be easy for us to deliver.”
She then called South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol a “fool.”
Her remarks are North Korea’s first response to the two countries’ security treaty.
Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, is a key figure in North Korea after being appointed to the country’s highest decision-making body in September 2021.
She is thought to be one of her brother’s closest confidantes. The National Intelligence Service of South Korea formerly rated her as the country’s “de facto second in command.”
According to the new agreement, the US will “take steps to make our deterrence more visible through the regular deployment of strategic assets, including a US nuclear ballistic submarine visit to South Korea,” according to a US official.
