Published on
20/08/2026 - 6:02 GMT+2
North Korea said on Wednesday that a US decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea does not change that it sees the drills as provocative nature, dampening hopes for an early resumption of diplomacy between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump.
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made the comments late on Wednesday night in her country’s first reaction to Trump’s moves to drastically cut back the annual US-South Korean military drills.
“We think it’s not worth making comments on that and we have no interest in it at all,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media.
