{"id":1420607,"date":"2022-04-05T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420607"},"modified":"2022-04-05T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:15:17","slug":"kim-jong-uns-sister-threatens-to-nuke-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-jong-uns-sister-threatens-to-nuke-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un\u2019s Sister Threatens to Nuke South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkim-jong-uns-sister-threatens-to-nuke-south-korea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420607&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Kim Yo-jong, the powerful and influential sister of communist North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, threatened to use nuclear weapons against South Korea on Tuesday after South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook discussed his military\u2019s ability to \u201caccurately and swiftly\u201d strike targets in the North.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Suh made his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20220401005400325\"><span>comments<\/span><\/a><span> on Friday while attending a ceremony at the South Korean Army Missile Strategic Command base in Wonju.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cCurrently, our military possesses large numbers and various types of missiles that have greatly improved in terms of ranges, accuracy and power, and it has capabilities to accurately and swiftly strike any targets in North Korea,\u201d Suh told his troops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Suh said South Korea has the ability to strike the \u201corigin of any attack and its command and support facilities,\u201d a comment widely interpreted as a warning to North Korea, which conducted a provocative missile test in late March.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10014885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/01\/wi\/ap\/23\/3b1e6c_south-korea-japan-radar-dispute-45654-suh-wook-chief-operations-south-korea.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Suh Wook, chief director of operations at the South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks during a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. (Lee Ji-eun\/Yonhap via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Suh\u2019s warning was certainly heard in Pyongyang. The communist tyranny went berserk after the South Korean defense minister\u2019s address to his missile corps. North Korean propaganda shrieked that Suh was threatening to launch \u201cpre-emptive strikes,\u201d a phrase he never actually used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>North Korean military chief Pak Jong-chon <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20220403000025\"><span>railed<\/span><\/a><span> that his forces would \u201cmercilessly direct all its military force into destroying major targets in Seoul and the South Korean army,\u201d if the South were to be \u201cguided by misjudgment\u201d and engage in \u201cdangerous military action such as a pre-emptive strike.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19718810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/north-korea-kim-file-photo-by-north-korean-government-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-attends-mee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19718810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/north-korea-kim-file-photo-by-north-korean-government-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-attends-mee.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In file this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers\u2019 Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, Jan. 19, 2022. (Korean Central News Agency\/Korea News Service via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Pak <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/kim-jong-un-sister-enraged-125937542.html\"><span>warned<\/span><\/a><span> that \u201cany slight misjudgement and ill statement rattling the other party under the present situation\u201d could lead to \u201ca dangerous conflict and a full-blown war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kim Yo-jong quickly took point on responding to South Korea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/04\/kim-jong-uns-sister-calls-south-korean-defense-minister-scum-threatens-disaster\/\">unleashing<\/a> a barrage of insults and threats over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThe senseless and scum-like guy dare mention a \u2018preemptive strike\u2019 at a nuclear weapons state,\u201d Kim snarled. \u201cSouth Korea may face a serious threat owing to the reckless remarks made by its defense minister. South Korea should discipline itself if it wants to stave off disaster.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs long as the South Korean military reveals its intent to seek provocative incentives of serious level and escalate a showdown with the DPRK, I will give a serious warning upon authorization,\u201d she <\/span><span>said<\/span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>DPRK is the North Korean regime\u2019s name for itself, and the phrase \u201cwarning upon authorization\u201d implies she was speaking with the approval and endorsement of her brother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kim said her regime would \u201creconsider a lot of things concerning South Korea\u201d in light of Suh\u2019s remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, Kim issued another statement carried by North Korean state media in which she slammed Suh\u2019s remarks \u2013 or, more properly, North Korea\u2019s interpretation of them \u2013 as a \u201cfantastic daydream\u201d and the \u201chysteria of a lunatic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cIn case [South Korea] opts for military confrontation with us, our nuclear combat force will have to inevitably carry out its duty,\u201d Kim howled. \u201cA dreadful attack will be launched and the [South Korean] army will have to face a miserable fate little short of total destruction and ruin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kim arrogantly insisted Pyongyang does not see South Korea as its \u201cprimary enemy\u201d because the South Korean military is so feeble compared to the North\u2019s forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe will not fire even a single bullet or shell toward South Korea. It is because we do not regard it as a match for our armed forces,\u201d she sneered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn other words, it means that unless the south Korean army takes any military action against our state, it will not be regarded as a target of our attack,\u201d she said, alluding to North Korea\u2019s standard propaganda line that the South Korean government is merely a puppet of the North\u2019s true enemy, the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kim\u2019s tirade was translated by South Korea\u2019s <\/span><i><span>Korean Joongang Daily<\/span><\/i><i><span>, <\/span><\/i><span>which <a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/2022\/04\/05\/national\/northKorea\/North-Korea-nuclear-weapons\/20220405190423744.html\">speculated<\/a> the heavy breathing from Pyongyang was basically North Korea\u2019s traditional welcome for a new South Korean administration. President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol will take office next month and is expected to take a harder line against North Korea than his left-wing predecessor, Moon Jae-in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yoon <\/span><span>has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/nkorea-condemns-skoreas-remarks-preemptive-strike-issues-serious-warning-2022-04-02\/\"><span>discussed<\/span><\/a><span> the idea of pre-emptive strikes to thwart an imminent North Korean attack using advanced technology, such as hypersonic missiles. A spokesman for the incoming South Korean president said on Tuesday that he stands by those remarks in the face of belligerent rhetoric from the North.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPreemptive strikes are one of the actions accepted in the world, including at the U.N., as being usable not in a preventative sense but when a preemptive threat persists,\u201d<\/span><span>\u00a0Yoon spokeswoman Kim Eun-hye <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20220405005400315\">said<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kim Eun-hye noted that Kim Yo-jong unleashed her tirade at the defense minister from the <\/span><span>current <\/span><span>administration, so the incoming president is not responsible for Suh\u2019s statements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTherefore, while I will say that we will respond without the slightest error to North Korea\u2019s provocations and security threats, I would be grateful if you could ask Minister Suh and the defense ministry regarding their interpretation,\u201d she concluded truculently.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Yo-jong, the powerful and influential sister of communist North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, threatened to use nuclear weapons against South Korea on Tuesday after South Korean Defense Minister Suh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}