For the second time this week, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated South Korea for touting its supposed preemptive strike capabilities against the North, saying her country's nuclear forces would annihilate the South's conventional forces if provoked.
In a statement carried Tuesday by North Korea's state media, Kim Yo Jong called South Korea Defense Minister Suh Wook's recent comments about preemptive strikes a “fantastic daydream” and the “hysteria of a lunatic.”
In another statement directed toward Suh on Sunday, Kim Yo Jong called him a “scum-like guy” and warning that the South may face a “serious threat” because of his comments. The renewed tensions have been a major setback for outgoing South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a dovish liberal who had staked his presidential term on his ambitions for inter-Korean rapprochement.
“In case opts for military confrontation with us, our nuclear combat force will have to inevitably carry out its duty … a dreadful attack will be launched and the army will have to face a miserable fate little short of total destruction and ruin,” Kim said in her latest statement. But the diplomacy derailed after the second Kim-Trump meeting in 2019 where the Americans rejected North Korea's demands for major sanctions relief in exchange for a limited surrender of its nuclear capabilities.
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