Kim Yo Jong of North Korea said it was “high time” to break away from the South Korean authorities. (File)
Seoul:
North Korea to “take measures” against the South and entrust its soldiers with the execution, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, threatened on Saturday in a press release by the news agency KCNA.
“I think it is high time to break with the South Korean authorities. We are going to take a next step soon,” she said in the latest report from Seoul.
Since last week, the North has issued a series of Southern Vitriol sentences for activists who send anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border – something defectors do regularly.
“By exercising my authority, as authorized by the Supreme Leader, our party and the state, I have instructed the arms of the department responsible for affairs with the enemy to take decisive action next,” said Kim Yo Jong. , who is a key adviser to his brother.
She added that “the right to take the next action against the enemy will be given to our army staff”.
Kim did not specify what the military action would be but appeared to threaten the destruction of the Joint Liaison Office in the North Korean border town of Kaesong.
“In a short time, a tragic scene from the completely collapsed unnecessary North-South joint liaison office will be seen,” said his statement on KCNA.
Last week, she condemned Seoul for failing to prevent activists from stealing balloons carrying anti-regime fliers across the border.
Pyongyang has since issued a series of statements and organized several citizens’ rallies against the South, KCNA describing the dissemination of leaflets as “an act of a pre-emptive attack that precedes a war”.
“It is necessary to make them feel what they have done,” said Kim Yo Jong, referring to what she called the failure of the South to stop the leaflet campaign.
It was Pyongyang’s second outburst on Saturday. Earlier in the day, the North excoriated the South for “speaking absurdly” about the denuclearization process and trying to “meddle” in the North American talks.
Inter-Korean relations have stalled since the collapse of the second North American summit in Hanoi last February, with an impasse on the concessions that Washington was ready to offer in exchange for denuclearization measures in Pyongyang.
Saturday’s opposition came a day after Pyongyang released a spiky denunciation by the United States on the second anniversary of a historic summit in Singapore where President Donald Trump shook hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
It contained some of the harshest criticism that Pyongyang has sent to Washington in recent months and cast doubt on the long-deadlocked future of the nuclear negotiation process.
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