Kim Yo-Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, makes a speech during a national meeting held in Pyongyang, North Korea, Aug. 10, 2022, in this photo released by the North's official Korean Central News Agency . Yonhap
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday condemned the ongoing joint military drills between South Korea and the United States, warning of "unimaginably terrible consequences."
Kim Yo-jong, a department director at the ruling party, issued the warning in a press statement a day after Seoul and Washington kicked off their annual springtime military exercise, the Freedom Shield, for an 11-day run.
"The muscle-flexing of the hostile forces near the areas of our state's sovereignty and security may cause unimaginably terrible consequences," Kim said in the statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
Kim said the exercise took place "at a critical time when global security structure is collapsing rapidly and wars break out in different parts of the world due to the reckless acts of the outrageous international rogues."
"This will result in further destroying the stability of the region," she noted.
Apache helicopters at Camp Humphreys, a U.S. military base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday / Newsis
Kim said the exercise reveals once again the countries' "inveterate repugnancy" and "habitual hostile policy" toward Pyongyang, calling it a "provocative and aggressive war rehearsal of those simulating and planning the confrontation" with the regime.
Citing the "recent global geopolitical crisis and complicated international events," she said they show that all military maneuvers by enemy field warfare troops have "no distinction between defense and attack, training and actual warfare."
"They should be suppressed through an extraordinarily overwhelming and preemptive super-offensive," Kim noted.
Source: Korea Times News
