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Kim Jong Un’s sister slams the US and South Korea

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North Korean chief Kim Jong Un’s influential sister lambasted the United States and South Korea, state media reported on Tuesday, in a broadside geared toward coinciding with the arrival of high US officers in Seoul.
With the US and South Korea beginning joint army drills close to the North Korean border final week, Kim Yo Jong mentioned she was aiming to “warn the new US administration of trying hard to spread the smell of gunpowder on our land from across the ocean.”
“If it wants to sleep in peace for coming four years, it had better refrain from causing a stink at its first step,” the KCNYA reported her as saying in a press release.
North Korea questions linger
The assertion comes a day earlier than US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are on account of arrive in Seoul for his or her first talks with South Korean counterparts. The pair may also go to Tokyo as a part of their four-day journey.
The timing of Kim’s feedback appears designed to make sure that North Korea will likely be on the high of Blinken and Austin’s agenda.
On Monday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki mentioned the White House had made efforts to speak with the North Korean authorities however that the United States’ overtures had but to yield a response.