Kim Jong Un’s sister warns US-South Korea plan leads to ‘more serious danger’

2023-04-29 03:49:00

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned that the plan by the United States and South Korea to strengthen the deterrence strategy against Pyongyang will result in a “more serious danger”, state media said on Saturday (29, Friday night). in Brasilia).

At a meeting of their presidents on Wednesday in Washington, the United States and South Korea warned that North Korea would face a nuclear response and the “end” of its regime if it decided to use its own arsenal.

In the so-called Washington Declaration, Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol ratified US nuclear protection over South Korea and the regular deployment of US strategic assets in the region, including a nuclear ballistic submarine.

For Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, this agreement “will only result in exposing the peace and security of Northeast Asia and the world to more serious dangers”.

“The more the enemies are committed to carrying out nuclear warfare exercises, and the more nuclear assets they deploy in the vicinity of the Korean peninsula, the stronger will be the exercise of our right of self-defence,” Kim’s influential sister was quoted as saying by the agency. KCNA official news.

North Korea has defied international sanctions for years to develop its nuclear and weapons program and, moreover, has warned on several occasions that it does not intend to dispose of its arsenal.

In recent months, the hermetic Asian country has carried out a series of tests of weapons prohibited by these sanctions, including a solid-fuel ballistic missile that represents a major advance in its military capabilities.