{"id":6521,"date":"2025-04-09T09:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:39:59","slug":"north-korean-leaders-sister-denounces-denuclearization-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6521","title":{"rendered":"North Korean leader’s sister denounces denuclearization calls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SEOUL, South Korea — <\/span>The powerful sister<\/a> of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday mocked Washington and its Asian allies for what she called their \u201cdaydream\u201d of denuclearizing the North, insisting that the country will never give up its nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n

The statement by Kim Yo Jong, one of the country’s top foreign policy officials, was in response to a meeting last week between the top diplomats of the United States, South Korea and Japan where they reaffirmed their commitment to push for the North\u2019s denuclearization. <\/p>\n

Noting that North Korea\u2019s goals for nuclear weapons expansion are enshrined in its constitution, she insisted that any external discussions of denuclearization constitute \u201cthe most hostile act\u201d and amount to a denial of her country\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the U.S. and its vassal forces continue to insist on anachronistic \u2018denuclearization\u2019 \u2026 it will only give unlimited justness and justification to the advance of the DPRK aspiring after the building of the strongest nuclear force for self-defense,\u201d she said in comments released by state media, using the initials of North Korea\u2019s formal name, the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea. She said North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons status can \u201cnever be reversed by any physical strength or sly artifice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tensions in the regions have increased as Kim Jong Un continues to flaunt his military nuclear capabilities and align with Russia over President Vladimir Putin\u2019s war on Ukraine<\/a>. Kim is ignoring calls by Seoul and Washington to resume denuclearization talks.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he would reach out to Kim<\/a> again to revive diplomacy, but the North has not responded to that offer. Trump and Kim met three times during Trump\u2019s first term, but their diplomacy quickly collapsed over disagreements about ending U.S.-led sanctions in return for North Korea taking steps to wind down its nuclear and missile programs.<\/p>\n

Kim\u2019s foreign policy priority is now Russia, which he has supplied with weapons and troops to help prolong its warfighting in Ukraine. Seoul fears that Kim may receive economic assistance and advanced technology to develop his arsenal in exchange for its military supporting Russia.<\/p>\n

Kim Yo Jong\u2019s statement came a day after South Korea fired warning shots<\/a> to repel a group of North Korean soldiers who had crossed the border. South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said about 10 North Korean soldiers, some carrying weapons, violated the military demarcation line in the eastern section of the border. When South Korea issued warnings and fired warning shots, they did not return fire and returned to North Korea.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether acting president Han Duck-soo discussed the North Korean nuclear threat with U.S. President Donald Trump during a telephone conversation on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Trump said in a social media post that the two leaders discussed tariffs, trade and Seoul\u2019s payment for what he called the \u201cbig time\u201d military protection the United States provides to South Korea. There are concerns in Seoul that Trump might push South Korea to pay significantly more of the costs for the some 28,000 U.S. troops stationed in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEOUL, South Korea — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday mocked Washington and its Asian allies for what she called their \u201cdaydream\u201d of denuclearizing the North, insisting that the country will never give up its nuclear weapons program. The statement by Kim Yo Jong, one of the country’s top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions\/6523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}