North Korea has no interest in any policy or proposals for reconciliation from Seoul, the powerful sister of Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong-un has said in the regime’s first response to the peace overtures of South Korea’s liberal President Lee Jae-myung.
Kim Yo-jong, a senior North Korean ruling party official who is believed to speak for the country’s leader, said on Monday that Lee’s pledge of commitment to a South Korea-United States security alliance showed he was no different from his hostile predecessor.
“If South Korea expects to reverse all the consequences of [its actions] with a few sentimental words, there could be no greater miscalculation than that,” Kim warned in comments carried by official KCNA news agency.
Chang Yong-seok, a senior researcher at Seoul National University’s Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, said North Korea wanted the South to take specific steps if it genuinely sought to reduce tensions.
