N Korea says S Korea ‘cannot be a diplomatic partner’ as US drills continue

Powerful sister of North Korea’s person rejects bid overtures from South Korea, denouncing its continued subject drills with the US.

North Korean person Kim Jong Un’s sister has again dismissed bid overtures from South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, declaring that Pyongyang volition ne'er spot Seoul arsenic a spouse for diplomacy, according to authorities media.

The study by KCNA connected Wednesday came arsenic South Korea and its ally, the United States, continued their joint subject drills, which includes investigating an upgraded effect to North Korea’s increasing atomic capabilities.

Kim Yo Jong, who is among her brother’s apical overseas argumentation officials, denounced the exercises arsenic a “reckless” penetration rehearsal, according to KCNA, and said that Lee had a “dual personality” by talking astir wanting to prosecute bid portion continuing the warfare games.

She made the comments during a gathering connected Tuesday with elder Foreign Ministry officials astir her brother’s diplomatic strategies successful the look of persistent threats from rivals and a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape, KCNA reported.

“The Republic of Korea [ROK], which is not serious, weighty and honest, volition not person adjacent a subordinate enactment successful the determination diplomatic arena centred connected the DPRK [The Democratic Republic of Korea],” Kim said, utilizing the authoritative names for the 2 countries.

“The ROK cannot beryllium a diplomatic spouse of the DPRK,” she added.

The statement followed the latest outreach by Lee, who said past week that Seoul would seek to restore a 2018 subject statement betwixt the 2 countries aimed astatine reducing borderline tensions, portion urging Pyongyang to reciprocate by rebuilding spot and resuming dialogue.

Since taking bureau successful June, Lee has moved to repair relations that worsened nether his blimpish predecessor’s hardline policies, including removing front-line speakers that broadcast anti-North Korean propaganda and K-pop.

In a nationally televised code connected Friday, Lee said his authorities respects North Korea’s existent strategy and that Seoul “will not prosecute immoderate signifier of unification by absorption and has nary volition of engaging successful hostile acts”.

But helium besides stressed that South Korea remains committed to an planetary propulsion to denuclearise North Korea and urged Pyongyang to resume dialog with Washington and Seoul.

Kim Yo Jong, who antecedently dismissed Lee’s overtures arsenic a “miscalculation”, described the latest gestures arsenic “a fancy and a tube dream”.

“We person witnessed and experienced the soiled governmental strategy of the ROK for decades… and present we are sick and bushed of it,” she said, claiming that South Korea’s “ambition for confrontation” with North Korea has persisted some nether the blimpish and wide governments.

“Lee Jae-myung is not that antheral to alteration this travel of history” she continued, adding that “the South Korean “government continues to talk rambling pretence astir bid and improving relations successful bid to laic the blasted connected america for inter-Korean relations ne'er returning again”.

Kim Yo Jong’s comments travel Kim Jong Un’s statements, carried by KCNA connected Tuesday, which called the US-South Korea subject exercises an “obvious look of their volition to provoke war”. He also promised a accelerated enlargement of his atomic forces arsenic helium inspected his astir precocious warship being fitted with nuclear-capable systems.

The North Korean person past twelvemonth declared that North Korea was abandoning longstanding goals of a peaceful unification with South Korea and rewrote Pyongyang’s constitution to people Seoul arsenic a imperishable enemy.

His authorities has repeatedly dismissed calls by Washington and Seoul to revive negotiations aimed astatine winding down his atomic and rocket programmes, which derailed successful 2019, aft a collapsed acme with US President Donald Trump during his archetypal term.

Kim has besides made Moscow the precedence of his overseas argumentation since Russia’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine, sending troops and weapons to enactment President Vladimir Putin’s war, portion besides utilizing the struggle arsenic a distraction to accelerate his subject atomic programme.

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