Kim Jong's sister's insulting threats to South Korea
Kim Yo Jong holds the official position of Deputy Department
Director of the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party and is
considered the country's second most powerful figure after his brother.
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In this March 2, 2019 photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un's sister Kim Ho Jong attends an event in Hanoi (AFP)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister Kim Yo-jong has
issued insulting threats against South Korea, calling the new South Korean
president and government "idiots" and "wild dogs running after
an American bone."
According to the Associated Press (AP) news agency, Kim
Yo-jong's statement came two days after the South Korean Foreign Ministry's
statement on Thursday, in which he said that he was concerned about North
Korea's recent missile tests. Additional unilateral sanctions are under review.
The ministry said it would also clamp down on North Korea's
alleged cyber attacks if it carried out major provocations such as a nuclear
test, a key new source of funding for its weapons program. has imposed
on North Korea."
He called South Korea's new conservative president Yoon
Seok-yul and his administration officials "idiots" who are
"creating a dangerous situation."
He added that South Korea was "not our target" when
Moon Jae-un's liberal predecessor, who sought reconciliation with North Korea,
was in power.
According to the AP, this could be seen as a possible attempt
to help fuel anti-Yeon sentiment in South Korea.
Kim Yo-jong said, "We once again warn the rude and
foolish that the harsh sanctions and pressure by the United States and its
South Korean puppets against Pyongyang, to increase the hostility and anger of
North Korea and to will be similar to a trap.'
Kim Yo Jong holds the official position of deputy department
director of the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, but
South Korea's spy agency believes she is the second most powerful figure in
North Korea after her brother, and South Korea and Manages relations with the
United States.
In this April 27, 2018 photo, North Korea's leader (left)
signs the guest book at an inter-Korean summit in Panmunjom while his sister
Kim Yo Jong (right) is seen (AFP)
Although this is not the first time Kim Yo-jong has shown
provocation against South Korea, North Korea still escalates military tensions
on the Korean Peninsula, said Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at South Korea's
private Sejong Institute. Maybe because they are in charge of relations with
South Korea and have some influence over the North Korean military.
Last month, South Korea unilaterally imposed sanctions on 15
North Korean individuals and 16 organizations suspected of involvement in
illegal activities to finance the North's nuclear weapons and missile programs.
These were the first unilateral sanctions by Seoul on North
Korea in five years, but experts say the move was largely symbolic as financial
ties between the two countries are few and far between.
Observers say Seoul's push for cooperation with the United
States and other countries to crack down on North Korea's alleged illicit cyber
activities could undermine funding for North Korea's weapons programs.
Earlier this year, a panel of UN experts said in a report
that North Korea is stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from financial
institutions and cryptocurrency firms and exchanges. This illicit money is an
important source of funding for its nuclear and missile programs.
North Korea's nuclear and missile tests have been sanctioned
11 times by the United Nations since 2006.
But the UN Security Council has failed to impose new
sanctions on North Korea this year over its tests of banned ballistic missiles,
opposed by the council's two veto-wielding members, China and Russia.
North Korea has repeatedly said the UN sanctions are evidence
of its hostility to the US and its regular military exercises with South Korea.
Earlier on Tuesday, Kim Yo-jong warned that the US faces a
'more dangerous security crisis' as he urged the United Nations to condemn
North Korea's latest intercontinental ballistic missile test. , which is
capable of targeting the entire United States.
North Korea is notorious for personal attacks on South Korean
and American leaders.
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the country's leader Kim Jong-un,
has compared the US to a 'barking scared dog' while she has called former US
President Donald Trump a 'mentally disabled American'.
In March 2021, when former South Korean leader Moon Jae-in
was still in office, Kim Yo-jong called him 'America's pet parrot'.