In response to Seoul’s outreach efforts under its new left-leaning president, Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister has rejected the possibility of a dialogue with South Korea.
Kim Yo Jong criticized South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s efforts to bolster ties with Pyongyang, including the suspension of loudspeaker propaganda along the tense inter-Korean border, in a statement released by state-run media on Monday.
Kim, the head of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s ruling party, described Lee’s decision to halt the broadcasts as a “reversible turning backward of what they should not have done in the first place.”
Nothing could be a “more serious miscalculation” than South Korea “expected that it could reverse all the outcomes it had produced,” Kim claimed in remarks made by the official Korean Central News Agency.
Kim also criticized the Lee administration for “spinning a daydream” after its unification minister, Chung Dong-young, earlier this month endorsed Kim Jong Un’s invitation to the South Korean summit on economic cooperation in October.
According to Kim, the Lee administration’s “blind trust” in South Korea’s security partnership with the United States and “attempt to stand in confrontation” with Pyongyang are not at all different from Yoon Suk-yeol’s previous, conservative administration’s policies.
Kim, speaking in the name of South Korea’s Republic of Korea, “We clarify once more the official position that no matter what policy is put forth and what proposal is made in Seoul, we have no interest in it,” Kim said.
After Yoon was removed over a brief-lived declaration of martial law, Lee, who took office last month, has vowed to boost ties between the two Koreas, which have technically been at war since the Korean War of 1950-1953.
In contrast to Yoon’s conservative People Power Party and its ally, Lee’s left-leaning Democratic Party and its predecessors have traditionally favored closer ties with North Korea.
Source: Aljazeera
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