North Korea's Kim Yo-jong: "Transferring the authority to take counteractions to the military... Will take the next step soon" (Comprehensive)

Kim Yo-jong, First Deputy Director of the Workers' Party, Statement
"We Must Retaliate with Continuous Actions"
"The Liaison Office Will Collapse Without a Trace"
"It Seems Time to Break Ties with Namjoson People"

Kim Yo-jong, the younger sister of North Korean State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong-un and the First Deputy Director of the Workers' Party

Kim Yo-jong, First Deputy Director of the Workers' Party of Korea, stated on the 13th, "We will soon take the next step towards happiness," and announced, "I have instructed the departments related to anti-South Korea operations to carry out the next phase of actions."

In a statement released through the Korean Central News Agency on the same day, Kim said, "It seems the time has come to decisively break ties with the South Korean elements," and claimed, "Soon, you will witness the miserable sight of the useless North-South Joint Liaison Office collapsing without a trace."

She added, "Regarding our next plan, which the South Korean authorities might be curious about, I hint at this opportunity that the authority to carry out the next anti-South action will be handed over to our military's General Staff," and "I believe our military will also decide and execute something that will somewhat soothe the people's anger." This is interpreted as a de facto announcement of a strong military provocation.

Kim Yo-jong blamed the distribution of leaflets by defectors' organizations and the South Korean government's response as the cause of the current situation.

She said, "The judgment that the traitors and trash (defectors) must be made to pay for their crimes and the retaliatory plans accordingly established have firmly solidified as our internal national consensus, not just part of anti-South operations," and "They must painfully realize what they have done and what must never have been harmed has been wrongly harmed."

She firmly ruled out any possibility of dialogue with South Korea.

Kim stated, "If those who have the ability and courage to accomplish what has not been done for two years existed, would inter-Korean relations still be in this state?" and "We must never listen to their habitual late and exaggerated words or believe their merely formal and stereotypical rhetoric, nor tolerate the crimes of traitors and trash."

She continued, "Rather than those who are slow to understand mistakenly thinking this is 'just a threat' or trying to interpret our intentions and babble incoherently, it is time to retaliate with continuous actions," reiterating a warning of hardline measures.

The scene of President Moon Jae-in, Chairman Kim Jong-un, and President Trump talking in front of the Freedom House on the South Korean side of Panmunjom on June 30 last year.

North Korea issued three pressure messages against the U.S. and South Korea within 24 hours, including a statement by Jang Kum-chol, Director of the United Front Department, around midnight the previous day, and a statement by Kwon Jong-gun, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in charge of the U.S., in the afternoon.

Jang Kum-chol, Director of the United Front Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, criticized South Korea's response to the leaflet distribution, warning, "The time that flows from now on will be truly regrettable and painful for the South Korean authorities."

Kwon Jong-gun, Director of the U.S. Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, issued a statement regarding South Korea's remark about "efforts to promptly resume North Korea-U.S. dialogue," asserting, "It would be better to stop the nonsense about denuclearization."

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