The president of South Korea has offered aid to the North.
The ruler's sister responded: "You better shut up"
Kim Yo Jong said the words in response to Yun Suk-yeol's words, according to which his country is right to provide economic aid to North Korea in exchange for denuclearization.
"This is a simplistic and childish proposal, no one trades their fate for a corn cake," added Kim, who is defined as the "bad cop" in the government, in front of her brother
Reuters
08/19/2022
Friday, August 19, 2022, 2:30 p.m. Updated: 2:49 p.m.
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The good cop and the bad cop (Photo: Reuters)
Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said today (Friday) that the South Korean president should "shut up" - after he reiterated his country's willingness to provide economic aid to the North in exchange for denuclearization.
It is the first time a senior North Korean official has commented directly on the plan first proposed by South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol in May, and which he mentioned again Wednesday at a press conference to mark his first 100 days in office.
"It would have been better for his image if he had kept his mouth shut instead of talking nonsense just because he had nothing better to say," Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA.
The statement called Yun's behavior "simplistic and childish," as he thinks he can trade economic cooperation for the North's honor and nuclear weapons.
"Nobody trades their fate for a corn cake," she added.
South Korea's Union Minister, who handles relations with the North,
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol at his inauguration, May (Photo: Reuters, Jeon Heon-Kyun / Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
While Yun has said that he is willing to provide graded economic aid to North Korea if it ends its nuclear weapons development and begins denuclearization, he has also pushed for increased South Korean military deterrence against North Korea.
South Korea has resumed long-suspended joint exercises with the United States, including large-scale field exercises that are due to begin next week.
On Wednesday, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Washington supported Yun's policies, but Kim said the joint exercises showed the allies' talk of diplomacy was not two-faced. "We make it clear that we will not sit down with him face to face," Kim said of Yun. Kim Yoo
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jung has become a vocal critic of South Korea in recent years, seen by some experts as playing the "bad cop" to her brother's more subdued statements. Her latest statement is her most personal and harshest yet about Yoon.
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