Sister of North korea leader warns south Korea on ‘retribution’, which may include the military, in a dispute over refugees from the regime in north Korean Pyongyang.
part defectors who have fled to south Korea have sent food and propaganda back to north Korea.
his Sister called Kim Yo-jong and is unofficially one of Kim Jong-uns toprådgivere. She has issued the warning in a statement published by the state news agency KCNA.
– In exercise of the powers, which I have been entrusted by the supreme leader, our party and the state, I have given an instruction on decisive action, says Kim Yo-jong.
In the declaration it is not clarified what the ‘decisive action’ is.
the Statement comes shortly after south Korea took steps to prosecute the defectors, who sent among other things, rice and leaflets containing anti-north Korean propaganda over the hard guarding the border – typically by means of balloons or bottles thrown into the sea.
north Korea has expressed increasing anger over this traffic.
the Country has in the past week interrupted the hotlines between the two countries and threatened to shut down a liaison office, which should improve the dialogue between the governments.
In 2018, the two countries ‘ leaders, otherwise, a declaration in which they promised to work to make Koreahalvøen nuclear-weapon-free and set all the ‘hostile acts’.
Political observers say that the north Korean regime will now use the crisis on the afhopperne as a pretext to get the south koreans to make concessions.
– Folds with propaganda is a pretext and an excuse to create a crisis and exert pressure on Seoul, says Duyeon Kim, who is a senior adviser at The International Crisis group – an independent think tank in Brussels.
north Korea feel let down, he adds. The country believes that south Korea had promised them more in the atomvåbenforhandlingerne between north Korea on one side and USA on the other.
