joint military exercises<\/a>\u00a0between the United States, Japan and South Korea, calling them \u201cdangerous\u201d and a \u201creckless show of strength\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe comments by Kim Yo Jong, published by state media on Sunday, come a day before Seoul and its allies begin drills combining naval, air and missile defence exercises off South Korea\u2019s Jeju Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The drills, called the \u201cFreedom Edge\u201d, will last through Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kim Yo Jong, who is vice department director of the North Korean governing party\u2019s central committee, slammed the drills as a \u201cdangerous idea\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis reminds us that the reckless display of power displayed by the US, Japan, and South Korea in the wrong places, namely around the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea, will undoubtedly bring about negative consequences for themselves,\u201d Kim Yo Jong said, using the official name for North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The statement follows a visit by her brother to weapons research facilities this week, where he said Pyongyang \u201cwould put forward the policy of simultaneously pushing forward the building of nuclear forces and conventional armed forces\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
North Korea perceives the trilateral drills as \u201cscenarios for limited or full-scale nuclear strikes and attempts to neutralise its launch platforms\u201d, Hong Min, a senior analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Al Jazeera: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s influential sister has condemned upcoming\u00a0joint military exercises\u00a0between the United States, Japan and South Korea, calling them \u201cdangerous\u201d and a \u201creckless show of strength\u201d. The comments by Kim Yo Jong, published by state media on Sunday, come a day before Seoul and its allies begin drills combining naval, air and missile defence exercises off South Korea\u2019s Jeju Island. The drills, called the \u201cFreedom Edge\u201d, will last through Friday. Kim Yo Jong, who is vice department director of the North Korean governing party\u2019s central committee, slammed the drills as a \u201cdangerous idea\u201d. \u201cThis reminds… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49994,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49992\/revisions\/49994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}