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Kim Jong-un’s sister warns ‘enemy’ South Korea of military action
- Kim Yo-jong threatens to destroy the joint liaison office in the latest escalation of tensions over anti-North leaflets
- Pyongyang also assailed Seoul for making ‘nonsensical talking’ about the denuclearisation process
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North Korea will take action against the South and entrust its military to carry it out, Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong-un, threatened on Saturday in a statement carried by the KCNA news agency.
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“I feel it is high time to surely break with the South Korean authorities. We will soon take a next action,” she said in the latest denunciation of Seoul.
Since last week the North has issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of the South over activists sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border – something defectors do on a regular basis.
“By exercising my power authorised by the Supreme Leader, our Party and the state, I gave an instruction to the arms of the department in charge of the affairs with enemy to decisively carry out the next action,” said Kim Yo-jong, who is a key adviser to her brother.
She added that “the right to taking the next action against the enemy will be entrusted to the General Staff of our army.”
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Kim did not elaborate on what the military action would be but appeared to threaten the destruction of the Joint Liaison Office, in the North Korean border city of Kaesong.
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North Korea cuts off line of communication with ‘enemy’ South Korea
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