Kim Yo-jong: "ICBM is Self-Defense... US Will Pay a Heavy Price for Provoking Us"

"Very Ominous Things Await the United States"

Kim Yo-jong, Vice Department Director of the Workers' Party of Korea, threatened on the 14th that the launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is justified and that the consequences for the United States for provoking North Korea will never be light.

In a statement released through the Korean Central News Agency on the same day, Vice Director Kim said, "Thoroughly suppressing and crushing the most hostile and most threatening U.S. anti-Republic nuclear confrontation policy is a legitimate right of self-defense to protect the Korean Peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region from the devastation of nuclear war," adding, "No one has any grounds to criticize our launch of the new intercontinental ballistic missile."

She stated, "The UN Security Council, by ignoring our country's legitimate security concerns and the U.S.'s criminal attempt to increase the actual possibility of nuclear war breaking out on the Korean Peninsula and in the region, and by unilaterally holding open meetings only to challenge our exercise of the right to self-defense, has fully proven itself to be a confrontation organization that destroys world peace and stability, a new Cold War organization completely subordinated to the United States and the West."

Kim Yo-jong, Deputy Director of the Workers' Party of Korea Photo by Yonhap News

She then expressed "strong displeasure and vehement condemnation of the UN Security Council's unfair and biased actions in once again questioning our legitimate exercise of the right to self-defense, which has caused no harm to anyone."

Vice Director Kim said, "The more the United States refuses to abandon its reckless and provocative choice of confrontation and tries to continue, the more the situation will flow in a very unpleasant direction for the United States," adding, "The consequences for the United States for provoking us will never be light, and I do not hide that very ominous things await the United States."

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