Kim Jong-Un's sister warns of 'a more fatal security crisis' as fears of nuclear tests rise: report
22 November 2022
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un's sister Kim Yo-Jong warned the United States on Tuesday of "a more fatal security crisis" following the US's request to the United Nations Security Counsel for a condemnation of Pyongyang's latest ballistic missile test.
"Kim Yo Jong’s warning came hours after US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that the US will circulate a proposed presidential statement condemning North Korea’s banned missile launches and other destabilizing activities," the Associated Press reported. "After the meeting, Thomas-Greenfield also read a statement by 14 countries which supported action to limit North Korea’s advancement of its weapons programs."
Jong is the deputy department director of the Publicity and Information Department of the Workers' Party and the most powerful person in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea behind her older brother.
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"The UNSC has turned blind eyes to the very dangerous military drills of the US and South Korea and their greedy arms buildup aiming at the DPRK and taken issue with the DPRK's exercise of its inviolable right to self-defense corresponding to them. This is evidently the application of double standards," Jong said in a press statement released by the Korean Central News Agency – the Kim regime's propaganda outlet.
"Great irony is that as soon as the UNSC opening meeting was over, the US vented its anger on failure in realizing its sinister intention while making public a disgusting 'joint statement' together with such rabbles as Britain, France, Australia, Japan, and South Korea, not concealing its bad mood," Jong continued, adding that "it reminds one of a barking dog seized with fear."
Jong also declared that "we will never tolerate anyone who slanders our exercise of the right to self-defense to protect the security of the state but will take the toughest counteraction to the last" and that the US and its allies "should be mindful that no matter how desperately it may seek to disarm the DPRK, it can never deprive the DPRK of its right to self-defense and that the more hell-bent it gets on the anti-DPRK acts, it will face a more fatal security crisis."
These threats, however, are nothing new and are on par with the rhetoric that North Korea spews out.
AP noted that "Friday’s test involved its most powerful Hwasong-17 missile, and some experts say the successful steep-angle launch proved its potential to strike anywhere in the US mainland if it’s fired at a standard trajectory."
The outlet further pointed out that "North Korea has said its testing activities are legitimate exercises of its right to self-defense in response to regular military drills between the United States and South Korea which it views as an invasion rehearsal. Washington and Seoul officials say the exercises are defensive in nature."
Nonetheless, regularly scheduled joint military drills that are conducted by the US and South Korea are perhaps the North's biggest gripe. But its continued bluster about nuking the South Korean capital of Seoul, American cities, and its continued development of atomic weapons in violation of international sanctions has a destabilizing impact on the peninsula and the surrounding region.
AP highlighted that "there are concerns that North Korea may soon conduct its first nuclear test in five years."
North Korea is also one of the world's worst perpetrators of human rights abuses.