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Seoul — Kita Kim Jong Un South Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the chairman's powerful sister, said on Friday that the South Korean president should "keep his mouth shut" after reiterating that he was ready to provide economic aid in exchange for nuclear disarmament.
Her comments are the first time a senior North Korean official has directly commented on what South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called a "bold" plan. A press conference commemorating his 100th day in office.
"It would have been better for his image to keep his mouth shut," Kim Yo Jong said in a statement released by state news agency KCNA, calling Yoon "really Simple and still childish." She thought she could get North Korea's honor and nuclear weapons in exchange for economic cooperation.
"Corn she has no one to trade fate for cake," she added.
While Yoon has said he is prepared to provide phased economic assistance to North Korea should it stop developing nuclear weapons and begin denuclearization, It also promotes strengthening South Korea's military deterrence. South Korea has resumed long-running joint exercises with the United States, including large-scale field exercises scheduled to begin next week.
On Wednesday, a US State Department spokesman said Washington supported Yoon's policies, but Kim said the joint exercise was disingenuous of allies' diplomatic talks. said to indicate that
"We will make it clear that we are not sitting face-to-face with him," she said of Yoon.
Experts say South Korea's latest economic plan said it was similar to proposals by previous leaders, including proposals made at the U.S.-China summit at the time. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have suggested that North Korea is unlikely to accept the offer. It adds to a long list of failed proposals, including South Korea's promise to provide … These were the same assumptions behind a series of failed efforts to revitalize denuclearization talks.” Scott Snyder, a senior fellow at the Council on Issues think tank, said in a blog post on Thursday.
North Korea launched two cruise missiles into the sea on Wednesday. This is the first attempt in two months. It came last week after the country declared victory over COVID-19. (Reporting by Joori Roh, Additional reporting by Josh Smith, Editing by Richard Pullin and Edwina Gibbs)
