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India Today
19 minutes ago
- India Today
No greater miscalculation: Kim Jong Un's sister on South Korea's peace offer
North Korea has no interest in any policy or proposals for reconciliation from South Korea, the powerful sister of its leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday in the first response to South Korean liberal President Lee Jae Myung's peace Yo Jong, who is a senior North Korean ruling party official and is believed to speak for the country's leader, said Lee's pledge of commitment to South Korea-US security alliance shows he is no different from his hostile South Korea expects to reverse all the consequences of (its actions) with a few sentimental words, there could be no greater miscalculation than that," Kim said in comments carried by official KCNA news agency. Lee, who took office on June 4 after winning a snap election called after the removal of hardline conservative Yoon Suk Yeol over a failed attempt at martial law, has vowed to improve ties with Pyongyang that had reached the worst level in gestures aimed at easing tensions, Lee suspended loudspeaker broadcasts blasting anti-North propaganda across the border and banned the flying of leaflets by activists that had angered the North Korean official, said those moves are merely a reversal of ill-intentioned activities by South Korea that should never have been initiated in the first place."In other words, it's not even something worth our assessment," she said."We again make clear the official position that whatever policy is established in Seoul or proposal is made, we are not interested, and we will not be sitting down with South Korea and there is nothing to discuss."South Korea's Unification Ministry said Kim Yo Jong's comments "show the wall of distrust between the South and the North is very high as a result of hostile and confrontational policy over the past few years."South Korea will continue to make efforts for reconciliation and cooperation with the North, ministry spokesperson Koo Byoung-sam told a has been cautious optimism in the South that the North may respond positively and may even show willingness to re-engage in dialogue, particularly after Pyongyang also shut off its loudspeakers, a move Lee said was quicker than Lee, whose government is in the midst of tough negotiations with Washington to avert punishing tariffs that President Donald Trump has threatened against a string of major trading partners, has said US alliance is the pillar of South Korea's said on the anniversary of the Korean War armistice on Sunday Seoul would make efforts in all areas to "strengthen the South Korea-US alliance that was sealed in blood."advertisementNorth Korea also marked the anniversary which it calls victory day with events including a parade in Pyongyang, although state media reports indicated it was at a relatively lesser scale compared to some previous of soldiers marched holding portraits of commanders including state founder Kim Il Sung with spectators and frail veterans in historic army uniforms in attendance in state media photos, which did not show major weapons as part of the parade.A formation of military jets flew over the Pyongyang Gymnasium square in the night sky trailing streaks of flares and fireworks. State media made no mention of leader Kim Jong Un's two Koreas, the United States and China, which are the main belligerents in the 1950-53 Korean War, have not signed a peace treaty.- EndsTrending Reel
Time of India
37 minutes ago
- Time of India
North Korea says 'no reason' for talks with South
Leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister SEOUL: North Korea has no interest in pursuing dialogue with the south, leader Kim Jong Un 's powerful sister said Monday, dismissing a new president in Seoul who has vowed to mend ties. Since his election in June, south Korean president Lee Jae Myung has broken with his predecessor's hawkish tone on the north and halted loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts along the border, begun in response to a barrage of trash-filled north Korean balloons. North Korea has ended its own propaganda broadcasts, which had boomed strange and eerie noises into the south. But such gestures do not mean Seoul should expect a thawing of icy ties, Kim Yo Jong said in an English dispatch carried by the north's official Korean Central News Agency on Monday. "If the ROK... expected that it could reverse all the results it had made with a few sentimental words, nothing is more serious miscalculation than it," she said, referring to south Korea by its official name. "We clarify once again the official stand that no matter what policy is adopted and whatever proposal is made in Seoul, we have no interest in it and there is neither the reason to meet nor the issue to be discussed with the ROK," she added. "The DPRK-ROK relations have irreversibly gone beyond the time zone of the concept of homogeneous," she said, using the north's official acronym. Seoul said Kim's statement, Pyongyang's first reaction to Lee's overture, "reaffirms the high level of mistrust between the two due to years of hostile policies". by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Indonesia: Unsold Sofas at Bargain Prices (Prices May Surprise You) Sofas | Search Ads Search Now Undo "We take this as a sign that the north is closely monitoring the Lee administration's North Korea policy," Unification Ministry Spokesman Koo Byung-sam said at a press briefing. Hong Min, a senior analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, told AFP that Kim's statement underscored Pyongyang's entrenched anti-south stance. "It declares that its hostile perception towards the south has become irreversible," he said. The two countries technically remain atL war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. The United States, a key security ally of south Korea, keeps around 28,000 troops in the south to help it defend attacks from the nuclear-armed north. The south's Lee has said he would seek talks with the north without preconditions, following a deep freeze under his predecessor when relations plummeted to their worst level in years.
CNA
an hour ago
- CNA
What's Coming Up - One "Orphan" Every Hour
Some 200,000 Korean 'orphans' were adopted by parents in Western countries in the decades following the Korean War. In 1985, the year adoptions peaked, Korea sent more than 8,700 babies abroad, amounting to one every hour. But are these really orphans to begin with?
