Before the visit of the new US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to South Korea, North Korea condemned the joint military exercises of the two allied countries and warned the US.
The influential sister of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un, Kim Yo Jong, attacked the new US administration with harsh words and accused it of causing trouble.
„If she wants to sleep in peace for the next four years, she would have better refrained from causing trouble as a first step,“ Kim was quoted as saying by the state-controlled media today. Turning to South Korea, the sister of the North Korean dictator threatened North Korea’s withdrawal from a bilateral military agreement of 2018.
It was North Korea’s first public statement about Biden. The US government had previously stated that it had previously unsuccessfully sought contact with the North Korean leadership. The aim is to rely on diplomacy and reduce the „risk of escalation“, said the spokeswoman for US President Joe Biden, Jen Psaki, yesterday in the White House. So far, however, the government has not received an answer from Pyongyang.
