SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said South Korea and its President Lee Jae Myung had a “dual personality” by talking about wanting to pursue peace while continuing joint military drills with the U.S., state media KCNA said on Wednesday.
South Korea and its ally the United States kicked off joint military drills this week, including testing an upgraded response to heightened North Korean nuclear threats.
Pyongyang regularly criticises such drills as rehearsals for invasion and sometimes responds with weapons tests, but Seoul and Washington say they are purely defensive.
“Lee Jae Myung is not that man to change this flow of history” of confrontational ambition, Kim said, adding “they must be aware that the inter-Korean relationship they want will never return,” according to KCNA.
The remarks follow North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s statements, carried by KCNA on Tuesday, which called U.S.-South Korea military exercises an “obvious expression of their will to provoke war” and underscored his country’s need to rapidly expand its nuclear armament.
(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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