SEOUL: South Korea and the US will face even greater security threats for going ahead with scheduled joint military drills due to begin this week, Kim Yo-jong, a powerful North Korean official and sister of leader Kim Jong-un said on Tuesday.
South Korea and the US will begin preliminary military drills on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported on Monday, despite North Korea’s warning that the exercises would set back progress in improving inter-Korean relations.
The drills are an “unwelcome, self-destructive action” that threaten the North Korean people and raises tensions on the Korean peninsula, Kim Yo-jong said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA.
“The US and South Korea will face a more serious security threat by ignoring our repeated warnings to push ahead with the dangerous war exercises,” she said.