The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un slammed US President Joe Biden for making nuclear threats, saying it marked the “dotage of the old” and would be met by a boost in her country’s atomic arsenal.
Kim Yo-jong’s comments, released on state media Saturday, marks the first official reaction from North Korea to a meeting this week in Washington between Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to boost their deterrence against Pyongyang, and includes a rare mention of the US president in its propaganda apparatus.
She called the “Washington Declaration” reached between Biden and Yoon “a product of the vicious hostile policy toward the DPRK which reflected the most antagonistic and aggressive will of action,” the official Korean Central News Agency reported, referring to the country by its formal name. Kim Yo-jong, who has been used as the face of the pressure campaign against the US and South Korea, added that while the two countries bring more nuclear assets into the region, North Korea will respond by boosting its arsenal “in direct proportion to it. ” North Korea added to the rhetoric on Sunday with a vow to step up its “military deterrence,” according to state media. The South Korean president’s US visit was described as “the most hostile, aggressive and provocative trip and a dangerous one for a nuclear war,” in a commentary carried by KCNA.
Kim Yo-jong’s comments, released on state media Saturday, marks the first official reaction from North Korea to a meeting this week in Washington between Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to boost their deterrence against Pyongyang, and includes a rare mention of the US president in its propaganda apparatus.
She called the “Washington Declaration” reached between Biden and Yoon “a product of the vicious hostile policy toward the DPRK which reflected the most antagonistic and aggressive will of action,” the official Korean Central News Agency reported, referring to the country by its formal name. Kim Yo-jong, who has been used as the face of the pressure campaign against the US and South Korea, added that while the two countries bring more nuclear assets into the region, North Korea will respond by boosting its arsenal “in direct proportion to it. ” North Korea added to the rhetoric on Sunday with a vow to step up its “military deterrence,” according to state media. The South Korean president’s US visit was described as “the most hostile, aggressive and provocative trip and a dangerous one for a nuclear war,” in a commentary carried by KCNA.