The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rejected a disarmament-for-aid deal offered by South Korea¡¯s president, calling it a ¡°stupid¡± plan and dismissing the idea of engaging with Seoul.
Kim Yo Jong told South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to ¡°stop dreaming in vain,¡± the state¡¯s official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday. The comments added to the heated rhetoric she has fired off toward Yoon¡¯s government this month, which has set the stage for Pyongyang to resume tests of weapons related to its nuclear program that have been put on hold as it battled a COVID-19 outbreak.
Yoon¡¯s proposal was ¡°as stupid as trying to dry the dark blue ocean and turn it into a mulberry field,¡± Kim Yo Jong said, adding North Korea had no intention of getting rid of its nuclear arsenal and the weapons were not a subject for political bargaining.
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