SAEDNEWS: Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, warned Seoul against drills with the US.
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has issued a stern warning to South Korea, declaring that Pyongyang will view Seoul’s participation in upcoming drills with the United States as a continuation of hostile policies.
The warning comes ahead of Iron Mace, a U.S.–South Korea joint command-and-staff exercise scheduled for September 15–19, which will run alongside the trilateral “Freedom Edge” drills involving South Korea, the United States, and Japan.
Kim Yo Jong said, “If the present rulers have sympathized with the dangerous ‘idea’ cooked up by the former rulers and put it into practice, we will regard it as an unfiltered ‘demonstration’ of their anti-DPRK confrontational stand and ‘succession’ of confrontational policy [of the previous administration].”
She further warned, “I remind the US, Japan and the ROK that the reckless show of strength made by them in real action in the vicinity of the DPRK, which is the wrong place, will inevitably bring bad results to themselves.”
The remarks underscore Pyongyang’s ongoing sensitivity to military activities near its borders and highlight the potential for heightened tensions as the joint drills approach.
