Kim Jong Un’s sister warns of ‘overwhelming nuclear deterrence’ FMTNews FMTWorld
SEOUL: The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned today of “overwhelming nuclear deterrence” unless the US drops what she called its “hostile policy” against Pyongyang, state media reported.
Kim Yo Jong also defended North Korea’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch as an act of self-defence. The nuclear-armed state on Wednesday test-fired a solid-fuel missile that flew 1,001km at a maximum altitude of 6,648km, before splashing into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.“Under the premise that the US doesn’t accept dropping its anti-North Korea policy … We will strive hard to establish the most overwhelming nuclear deterrence,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
The launch was an “exercise of self-defence … to protect the Korean peninsula from falling into a nuclear warfare”, she said, adding that no one could blame Pyongyang in the face of Washington’s “hostile policy”.In a joint statement, 10 of the Security Council’s 15 members including South Korea condemned the latest test and noted that the North’s 20 launches of ballistic missiles in 2023 were “all blatant violations of multiple Security Council resolutions”.
In response to the North’s string of missile launches this year, Seoul and Washington have ramped up security cooperation, vowing that Pyongyang would face a nuclear response were it to ever use its nuclear weapons against the allies.
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