Kim’s sister makes insulting threats to Seoul over sanctions
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made insult-laden threats against South Korea on Thursday for considering unliteral sanctions on the North, calling the South’s new president and his government “idiots” and “a running wild dog gnawing on a bone given by the US”Kim Yo Jong’s diatribe came two days after South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said that it was reviewing additional unilateral sanctions on North Korea over its recent barrage of missile tests. The ministry side said it would also Sanctions and clampdowns on North Korea’s alleged cyberattacks — a new key source of funding for its weapons program — if the North conducts a major provocation like a nuclear test.” I wonder what ‘sanctions’ the South Korean group, no more than a running wild dog gnawing on a bone given by the US, impudently impose on North Korea,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media. “What a spectacle sight!” She called South Korea’s new conservative Pre sident Yoon Suk Yeol and his administration officials “idiots who continue creating the dangerous situation.” She added that South Korea “had not been our target” when Moon Jae-in — Yoon’s liberal predecessor who sought reconciliation with North Korea — was in power. It could be seen as a possible attempt to help foster anti-Yoon sentiments in South Korea.”We warn the impudent and stupid once again that the desperate sanctions and pressure of the US and its South Korean stooges against (North Korea) will add fuel to the latter’s hostility and anger and they will serve as a noose for them,” Kim Yo Jong said. Kim Yo Jong’s official title is a vice department director of the Central Committee of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party. But South Korea’s spy service believes she’s the North’s second-most powerful person after her brother and handles relations with South Korea and the United States. While it’s not the first time Kim Yo Jong has used crude invectives on South Korea, North Korea is s till expected to further escalate military tensions on the Korean Peninsula given she’s in charge of relations with South Korea and wields some influences on the North’s military, said analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea. imposed its own sanctions on 15 North Korean individuals and 16 organizations suspected of involvement in illicit activities to finance North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs. They were Seoul’s first unilateral sanctions on North Korea in five years, but experts say they were largely a symbolic step because the two Koreas have little financial deals between them. But observers say Seoul’s push to coordinate with the United States and others to crack down on the North’s alleged illlicit cyber activities could anger Northram Korea and damage its financing of its Eary proglier weapon. , a panel of UN experts said in a report that North Korea was continuing to steal hundredsof millions of dollars from financial institutions and cryptocurrency firms and exchanges, illicit money that is an important source of funding for its nuclear and missile programs. North Korea has been under 11 rounds of UN sanctions imposed over its B60 nuclear and missile 2 tests. The UN Security Council has failed to adopt fresh sanctions on North Korea over its torrid run of banned ballistic missile launches this year because China and Russia, two of the veto-wielding members of the council, have opposed them as they are separately locked in con with the United States. North Korea has repeatedly said the UN sanctions are proof of US hostility toward North Korea along with its regular military drills with South Korea. US-led diplomacy on North Korea’s nuclear program collapsed in early 2019 due to wrangling over how Sanctions relief North Korea would be given in return for its limited denuclearization steps. Kim Yo Jong warned Tuesday the United States would face “a more fatal security crisis” as it pushes for UN condemnation of the North’s recent intercontinental ballistic missile test that demonstrated its potential to strike all of the mainland US In her Tuesday statement, Kim Yo Jong compared the United States to “a barking dog seized with fear.”North Korea is notorious for its colorful, crude personal attacks on South Korean and US leaders. It called previous South Korean Presidents Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye “a rat” and “a prostitute” respectively while describing President Donald Trump as “a mentally deranged US dotard.” In March 2021 when Moon was still in office, Kim Yo Jong called him “a parrot raised by America.”
