Kim Jong Un’s sister, Lee Jae-myung, the president of South Korea, has once more denied any requests for peace and has stated that Pyongyang will never use Seoul as a diplomatic partner, according to state media.
South Korea and its ally, the United States, conducted joint military exercises that included testing an improved version of North Korea’s growing nuclear arsenal as a result of the report released on Wednesday by KCNA.
Kim Yo Jong, one of her brother’s top foreign policy advisors, called the exercises “reckless” invasion rehearsals and claimed Lee had a “dual personality” by talking about wanting to pursue peace while playing host to the war games.
She made the remarks, according to KCNA, while meeting with senior Foreign Ministry officials on Tuesday about her brother’s diplomatic plans in the face of persistent threats from rivals and a rapidly altering geopolitical landscape.
Kim said, using the official names for the two nations, “The Republic of Korea [ROK], which is not serious, weighty, and honest, will not even have a subordinate work in the regional diplomatic arena centered on the DPRK [The Democratic Republic of Korea], “
She continued, “The ROK cannot serve as the DPRK’s diplomatic partner.”
The statement came after Lee’s most recent outreach, which stated last week that Pyongyang would try to restore a 2018 military pact between the two nations in order to ease border tensions while urging Pyongyang to do the same by restoring trust and resuming dialogue.
Lee has taken steps to repair relations that had worsened under his conservative predecessor’s hardline policies, including removing front-line speakers who broadcast K-pop and anti-North Korean propaganda.
Lee stated in a speech made on Friday that his country respects the current system in North Korea and that Seoul “will not pursue any form of unification by absorption and has no intention of engaging in hostile acts.”
He also urged Pyongyang to resume dialogue with Washington and Seoul and emphasized that South Korea is still committed to a global push to de-nuclearize North Korea.
The most recent gestures were described as “fancy and a pipe dream,” according to Kim Yo Jong, who previously referred to Lee’s gestures as “miscalculation.”
She said, “We have witnessed and experienced the dirty political system of the ROK for decades, and now we are sick and tired of it.” She claimed that both the conservative and liberal governments have continued to support South Korea’s “ambition for confrontation” with North Korea.
She continued, “Lee Jae-myung is not that man to change this flow of history,” adding that “the South Korean” government continues to make rambling pretences about peace and strengthening relations in an effort to blame us for inter-Korean relations never returning.”
Kim Yo Jong Un’s comments follow Kim Jong Un’s statements, which were made on Tuesday and followed by KCNA, which said the US-South Korean military exercises were an “obvious expression of their will to provoke war.” He also promised to quickly expand his nuclear arsenal as he examined the state-of-the-art warships, which were all equipped with nuclear-capable systems.
The North Korean leader rewrote Pyongyang’s constitution last year to make Seoul a permanent enemy and declared that it was abandoning its long-awaited goal of a peaceful unification with South Korea.
Following a failed summit with US President Donald Trump during his first term, his government has repeatedly rejected requests from Washington and Seoul to resume negotiations aimed at ending his nuclear and missile programs.
Source: Aljazeera
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