Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, is berating South Korea for touting its supposed preemptive strike capabilities against the North. The dueling rhetoric comes amid tensions over the North's accelerating weapons tests.
In a statement carried Tuesday by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, Kim Yo Jong called South Korea Defense Minister Suh Wook’s recent comments about preemptive strikes a “fantastic daydream” and the “hysteria of a lunatic.”
Her statements come amid tensions over North Korea’s accelerating weapons tests this year, including its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017 on March 24, as her brother revives nuclear brinkmanship aimed at pressuring Washington to accept the North as a nuclear power and remove crippling sanctions.
During a visit to the country’s strategic missile command last week, Suh said South Korea has the ability and readiness to launch precision strikes on North Korea if it detects the North intends to fire missiles at South Korea. Moon met Kim Jong Un three times in 2018 and lobbied hard to help set up his Kim’s first summit with then-President Donald Trump in June that year.
Before its resumption of long-range testing last month, the North had spent the past two years expanding its arsenal of nuclear-capable short-range missiles threatening South Korea.
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