Seoul:
The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un slammed authorities in Seoul more than their tracking of a attainable military parade in Pyongyang at the weekend, the North’s state media reported Wednesday.
“The southerners are a truly weird group hard to understand,” Kim Yo Jong, a crucial adviser to her brother, mentioned in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
“They are the idiot and top the world’s list in misbehaviour.”
Her comments accompanied the finish of the North’s ruling party congress, a crucial political occasion at which Kim Jong Un pledged to additional create his country’s nuclear capabilities and admitted blunders more than the handling of the economy.
Kim Yo Jong had appeared to endure a demotion at the meeting, not appearing on the lists of these appointed to the party central committee, immediately after previously getting an alternate member.
But the issuing of a statement in her personal name is an indication she remains a crucial player in the North’s diplomacy, possessing been behind its destruction of a liaison workplace on its side of the border final year.
On Monday, the South’s military mentioned it had detected “signs that North Korea held a military parade related to the congress” in the middle of the evening at Kim Il Sung Square in the capital Pyongyang.
It mentioned it was “closely tracking” the activity, which could have been the “actual event or its rehearsal”.
The declaration provoked derision from Kim Yo Jong, who known as it “senseless” and a demonstration of a “hostile attitude” by the South.
“We are only holding a military parade in the capital city, not military exercises targeting anybody nor launch of anything,” she mentioned, confirming the scheduling of the parade.
The South’s President Moon Jae-in brokered the talks method among Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, but that method deadlocked and the North repeatedly mentioned final year that it had no interest in speaking to Seoul.
In his New Year address on Monday, Moon declared: “Our determination to meet at any time and any place and talk even in a contact-free manner remains unchanged.”
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