North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister on Sunday denounced upcoming joint military drills by the United States, South Korea and Japan as a “reckless show of strength” that she warned would lead to “bad results,” state media reported.
The allies are set to hold joint military drills from Monday through Friday off the South's Jeju Island, combining naval, air and missile defense exercises to better prepare against threats from the nuclear-armed North.
Seoul and Washington, which stations around 28,500 troops in South Korea, will also stage a tabletop military exercise, aimed at integrating their military assets.
Kim Yo Jong slammed the drills as a "dangerous idea," in a statement carried by state news outlet KCNA.
"The reckless show of strength made by them (the allies) in real action in the vicinity of the DPRK, which is the wrong place, will inevitably bring bad results to themselves," she said, using the acronym for North Korea.
