North Korea warns South Korea to stop defectors from scattering anti-North leaflets - KCNA

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North Korea warns South Korea to stop defectors from scattering anti-North leaflets - KCNA

By Sangmi Cha

 

FILE PHOTO: Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam March 2, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/Pool/File Photo

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - The sister of North Korea's leader has warned South Korea to stop defectors from sending leaflets into the demilitarized zone separating the countries, saying it may cancel a recent bilateral military agreement if the activity persists.

 

Kim Yo Jong, who serves unofficially as Kim Jong Un's chief of staff, issued the warning in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA on Thursday.

 

She was referring to thousands of "anti-DPRK leaflets" recently dumped along the North's side of the heavily fortified DMZ titled "Defectors from the North".

 

DPRK, or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is the North’s official name.

 

"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," the KCNA statement said.

 

Responding to the North Korean statement, a spokesman for South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, called for a halt to the leaflet operations.

 

Sending leaflets increases tensions with North Korea, poses environmental risks and endangers private property, ministry spokesman Yoh Sang-key said at a regular briefing.

 

"The government has taken measures to stop leafletting several times," he said.

 

Kim Yo Jong warned of the possible scrapping of the inter-Korean military agreement that promised to eliminate practical threats of war as a result of the clandestine leafletting.

 

The military pact reached in 2018 was "hardly of any value", she said.

 

She also warned the North would withdraw from the Kaesong industrial project and shut down the joint liaison office in the North's border city unless Seoul stopped such actions.

 

Kim Yo Jong has been the most visible presence around her brother in the past two years. She serves formally as a vice director of the ruling Workers' Party's powerful Central Committee.

 

(Reporting by Sangmi Cha; Additional reporting by Josh Smith; Editing by Tom Brown and Gerry Doyle)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-06-04

 

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[Geoffggi]

Looks a hard faced B*&ch I bet the next time she smiles will be the first.......LOL

[klauskunkel]

58 minutes ago, car720 said:

If ever there was someone in dire need of a nest licking.

"Gooood Morning, Pyongyang!"

[wombat]

a face so hard you could break a brick on it.
how has rocket mans NK gone with covid?
with the borders of china and russia that NK share and the black marketing that goes on

i find it hard to fathom why rocket mans kingdom has avoided the covid thing.

[curlylekan]

She should be renamed Kim Yo Bobbit with a face like that

[fvw53]

Can't they just make threats and insults with Tweet ....like their buddy Donald Trump?

[Tropposurfer]

If you don'y stop leaving notes on my car windscreen I'm going to get very, very cross !

[Enoon]

8 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Looks a hard faced B*&ch I bet the next time she smiles will be the first.......LOL

 

 

[Ireland32]

2 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

 

Dog

[KC 71]

Jeez shes not that bad

[Stargeezr]

Awww NK  has not been very much in the news, and some there are Jealous maybe?

  Wonder how many have died in North Korea from this virus?

Geezer

[Macthehat]

7 hours ago, Ireland32 said:

Dog

I've done worse than her , shes better looking than half of patpong  lol

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[ChakaKhan]

24 minutes ago, Macthehat said:

I've done worse than her , shes better looking than half of patpong  lol

Reminds me as that fake smile from the patong girls as a falang walks by..hello teerak--joop joop!

 

And no matter how cute on outside once i see the ugliness inside the attraction is gone...blah

 

Oh another warning aka empty threat from NK- know wonder Trump loves them as its his playbook...sad!

[grumpy 4680]

        Just another step in the power play, getting ready to take over, when obese boy kicks the bucket.

[Tug]

She should be thankful that a competent leader isent in power here how about a 100% maritime blockade for starters and the air dropping of internet capable unlocked phones so the n Koreans can see how their brothers and sisters live to the south that would stir it up lol