South Korea and the U.S. should pay a price for conducting annual joint military drills due to begin this week, said Kim Yo Jong, a powerful North Korean official
By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea did not answer routine calls on inter-Korean hotlines on Tuesday, South Korea said, hours after a senior official in Pyongyang warned Seoul and Washington over annual joint military drills set to begin this week. Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accused South Korea of perfidious behaviour for going ahead with the drills after North Korea agreed to restore the hotlines in late July, having cut them last year amid rising tensions. Kim said U.S. military actions showed Washington s talk of diplomacy was a hypocritical cover for aggression and that peace would only be possible if it dismantled its military force in the South. In statement carried by North Korea s state news agency, she called the exercises an act of self-destruction for which a dear price should be paid as they threaten the safety of our people and further imperil the situation on the Korean peninsula . South Korea and the Unite
North Korea did not answer routine calls on inter-Korean hotlines on Tuesday, South Korea said, hours after a senior official in Pyongyang warned Seoul and Washington over annual joint military drills set to begin this week.
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, on Tuesday slammed the US and South Korea over their joint military drills, vowing to build up Pyongyang s nuclear weapons in response.In a statement carried by Pyongyang s official .
South Korea and the United States should pay a price for going ahead with annual joint military drills due to begin this week, Kim Yo Jong, North Korean official and sister of leader Kim Jong Un, says.