North Korea's Kim Yo-jong after ICBM launch: "No intention toward South Korea... Will carry out overwhelming response"

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwak Min-jae] Kim Yo-jong, Vice Department Director of the Workers' Party and sister of North Korean State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong-un, issued a statement condemning South Korea the day after the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

On the 19th, Vice Director Kim warned, "We still have no intention of dealing with South Korean things," adding, "We will closely monitor every hostile action and respond correspondingly to all hostile acts against us with very strong and overwhelming countermeasures."

This is the first statement from Vice Director Kim in 23 days since she condemned the United States' support of tanks to Ukraine on the 27th of last month.

She claimed, "Once again, our adversaries have recklessly committed blatant violations of the Republic's sovereignty without any grounds," and argued, "The reckless expansion of deterrence and joint defense postures, and the dangerous greed and attempts by the United States and South Korea to gain military superiority and dominant positions in the Korean Peninsula region are destroying regional stability moment by moment and making the situation increasingly precarious."

She also added a warning to the United States, stating, "The United States should stop deceiving the world with nonsense that it is not hostile to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and is open to dialogue, abandon the foolish scheme of trying to buy time at the negotiation table, cease all actions that threaten our country's security, refrain from tarnishing the Republic's image, and always carefully consider its own prospective security."

Regarding South Korea, she warned, "South Koreans should think carefully about what kind of disaster they might ultimately bring upon themselves if they continue to act 'bravely and recklessly' without knowing when to be offended or not as they do now."

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