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Days after U.S. President Donald Trump showed his interest in meeting with the leader of North Korea, Pyongyang responded by launching short-range ballistic missiles and publishing a harsh statement.
In this June 12, 2018 file photo, Kim Yo Jong (center) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump while her brother, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, looks on amid the North Korea-U.S. summit in Singapore.
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said there was no communication between the leaders of the United States and North Korea, according to a statement published by the North’s state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 19.
“As for the news from Washington that shortly ago, there was a communication between the leaders of the DPRK and the U.S., I am not aware of it at all, and perhaps it may be the only thing I do not know as regards the foreign policy of our supreme leadership,” Kim said. (DPRK is an acronym of North Korea’s official name, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.)
