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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sister calls South’s President Moon Jae-in ‘a parrot raised by America’
- Kim Yo-jong said Moon’s ‘illogical and brazen-faced’ comments on Pyongyang’s missile launches echoed the US stance
- Earlier, the White House said President Biden does not intend to meet with Kim Jong-un
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North Korea called South Korea’s president “a parrot raised by America” on Tuesday, resuming its trademark derisive rhetoric against its rivals amid renewed animosities on the Korean peninsula.
Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, issued the latest verbal salvo after South Korean President Moon Jae-in criticised the North’s ballistic missile launches last week. She said Moon’s “illogical and brazen-faced” comments echoed the US stance.
“We can hardly repress astonishment at his shamelessness,” Kim Yo-jong said in a statement carried by the North’s state media. “He cannot feel sorry for being ‘praised’ as a parrot raised by America.”
Seoul’s Unification Ministry expressed “strong regret” over her statement, saying that the two Koreas must observe “the rules of minimum etiquette in any circumstance.”
Kim Yo-jong once enjoyed an image of “a peace messenger” in South Korea after she visited Seoul and conveyed Moon her brother’s invitation to visit Pyongyang in early 2018. But since ties soured again, she’s taken the lead in anti-South rhetoric.
The United States, South Korea and the United Nations all condemned the North’s missile launches, the first of their kind in a year, as a violation of UN Security Council resolutions.
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