Kim Jong-un seems quite resolute in her convictions to cancel the agreement signed by both countries’ leaders in 2018 if "anti-NorthKorean" leaflets were continued to be sent across the border to the northern side of the demilitarised zone (DMZ).
Sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Yo-jong, has issued a warning to South Korea to halt propaganda leaflets from being sent across the border, threatening to nullify an agreement to reduce military tensions.
Her statement comes after North Korean detractors sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border earlier this week. According to Yonhap news agency, the leaflets were concealed in 500,000 balloons criticising Kim Jong-un’s repeated nuclear threats, and the country's human rights record.
Kim Jong-un seems quite resolute in her convictions to cancel the agreement signed by both countries’ leaders in 2018 if "anti-NorthKorean" leaflets were continued to be sent across the border to the northern side of the demilitarised zone (DMZ).
The agreement, that is being referred to here, called Panmunjom declaration is an intiative to cease “all hostile acts, including the loudspeaker broadcasting and scattering of leaflets” along the DMZ, and to co-operate to denuclearise the Korean peninsula.
“If such an act of evil intention committed before our eyes is left to take its own course under the pretext of ‘freedom of individuals’ and ‘freedom of expression’, the South Korean authorities must face the worst phase shortly," KCNA news agency quoted her as saying.
She said that the South Korean authorities will pay a "dear price" if the situation is not brought under control, warning that the Panmunjom declaration signed in 2018 by Kim Jong-un and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in was “hardly of any value”.
She further called the detractors “mongrel dogs” and “human scum,”, warning that any further transgressions would force North Korea to withdraw from an industrial complex in Kaesong, just north of the DMZ, and to shut down a joint liaison office in the town.
The complex, 10km (six miles) north of the DMZ, opened in 2004 and was hailed as an important step towards economic cooperation and reconciliation. The liaison office, which opened in September 2018 to reduce tensions, has been closed since January after the two Koreas agreed to temporarily shut it down during the coronavirus outbreak.
The complex which opened in 2004, located six miles north of DMZ, was hailed as an important step towards economic cooperation and reconciliation. The liason office, opened in September 2018 to reduce tensions, was closed in January this year after the two sides shut it down due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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