Kim Yo-jong "Condemns Security Council's Double Standards... US to Face a Critical Crisis"

"ICBM Launch, Exercise of Inviolable Right to Self-Defense"

Kim Yo-jong, First Deputy Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea [Photo by Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Jang Hee-jun] Kim Yo-jong, deputy director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and younger sister of Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued a statement targeting the United States. She condemned the convening of an open meeting of the UN Security Council in response to North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch as a "clear double standard," and harshly criticized the joint off-site statement condemning North Korea by ambassadors from 14 countries including South Korea, the U.S., and Japan, calling them "dogs barking out of fear."

In a statement released on the 22nd through the Korean Central News Agency, Kim said, "On the 21st, under the instigation of the United States, the UN Security Council held an open meeting to pick on our new intercontinental ballistic missile 'Hwasong-17' test launch."

She argued, "The UN Security Council deliberately ignored the dangerous military exercises and excessive military build-up that the United States and South Korea are busily conducting against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and instead mentioned our exercise of inviolable self-defense rights in response, which is a clear double standard."

In particular, when the UN Security Council adjourned without any conclusion due to the non-cooperation of China and Russia, ambassadors from 14 countries including South Korea, the U.S., and Japan issued a joint statement condemning North Korea. Kim strongly opposed and criticized this.

Regarding this, Kim said, "What is laughable is that as soon as the Security Council's open meeting ended, the United States could not hide its discomfort and, leading a ragtag group including the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Japan, and South Korea, issued a disgusting 'joint statement' to vent their frustration over their unfulfilled sinister intentions," mocking it as "a spectacle that cannot be compared to anything other than dogs barking out of fear."

She added, "Our government strongly condemns the reckless acts of the United States and its reactionary followers as a violent infringement on our sovereignty and a serious political provocation aimed at pushing the situation on the Korean Peninsula into a new crisis."

Furthermore, she stated, "We will never tolerate anyone who tries to pick a fight over our exercise of the right to self-defense to protect the nation's security and will respond with the utmost firmness to the end," and asserted, "No matter how much the United States struggles to disarm us, our right to self-defense can never be harmed, and they must remember that the more they persist in hostile acts against the Republic, the more they will face a deadly security crisis."

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