North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister said South Korea’s recent peace overtures were ‘not even something worth our assessment’
Kim Yo-jong, a senior North Korean ruling party official who is believed to speak for the country’s leader, said on Monday that Lee’s pledge of commitment to a South Korea-United States security alliance showed he was no different from his hostile predecessor.
“If South Korea expects to reverse all the consequences of [its actions] with a few sentimental words, there could be no greater miscalculation than that,” Kim warned in comments carried by official KCNA news agency.
Chang Yong-seok, a senior researcher at Seoul National University’s Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, said North Korea wanted the South to take specific steps if it genuinely sought to reduce tensions.
“The first of these steps is halting the coming US-South Korea joint military drills scheduled for next month,” Chang told This Week in Asia.
