North Korean leader’s sister jeers at Seoul; boasts of nuclear prowess

SpaceWar.com reports: “Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, mocked South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol as ‘stupid’ and sarcastically praised his hardline policies for giving a boost to Pyongyang’s own weapons program in a New Year’s greeting directed at Seoul.

Yoon ‘deserves to be praised by us as the ‘top-class person’ who made a significant ‘contribution’ to building up the self-defensive and irresistible military muscle on the part of the DPRK,’ Kim said in a statement carried late Tuesday night by state-run Korean Central News Agency…

‘It is much easier to deal with a stupid, honest man who has shown his hostility against the enemy than a wicked man with honey in his mouth and a sword in his heart,’ she said.

Kim referenced the New Year’s address made by Yoon in which he vowed to ‘build peace through strength’ and accelerate defensive readiness alongside Washington and Tokyo.

‘It will not be a submissive peace that is dependent on the goodwill of the adversary,’ Yoon said.

‘By the first half of this year, we will complete the enhanced ROK-U.S. extended deterrence system to fundamentally deter any North Korean nuclear and missile threat,’ he added, using the official initialism for South Korea.

Extended deterrence is the U.S. commitment to use all capabilities, including nuclear, to defend South Korea from the North’s threats.

In her statement, Kim called Yoon’s pledge to complete the extended deterrence system a ‘valuable gift.’

His comment ‘gave us again the justification and validity to further put spurs to securing more overwhelming nuclear combat capability,’ she said…”

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