North Korea dismisses Seoul's aid offer as 'foolish' repeat

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By KIM TONG-HYUNG

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said her country will never accept South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s “foolish” offer of economic benefits in exchange for denuclearization steps, accusing Seoul of recycling proposals Pyongyang already rejected.

In a commentary published by state media Friday, Kim Yo Jong stressed that her country has no intentions to give away its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program for economic cooperation, saying “no one barters its destiny for corn cake.”

She questioned the sincerity of South Korea’s calls for improved bilateral relations while it continues its combined military exercises with the United States and fails to stop civilian activists from flying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets and other “dirty waste” across their border.

She also ridiculed South Korea’s military capabilities, saying the South misread the launch site of the North’s latest missile tests on Wednesday, hours before Yoon used a news conference to urge Pyongyang to return to diplomacy.



FILE - This photo provided on Aug. 14, 2022, by the North Korean government, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, delivers a speech during the national meeting against the coronavirus, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. In a Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, commentary published by local media, Kim says her country will never accept South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s “foolish” offer of economic benefits in exchange for denuclearization steps, accusing Seoul of recycling past proposals Pyongyang already rejected. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)


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[Effete Snob]

1. "no one barters its destiny for corn cake."

Depends. Does it come with chili?

First nuclear weapons, and then they are going to flood the west with cheap manga...

[Turbineguy]

2. It's a US backed scheme to steal their misery and poverty!

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Well, actually a republican scheme. That's why trump fell in love with Kim.

[Swede]

3. While her people eat tree bark and grass.

That soldier that defected and several different kinds of parasites in his body. I will never understand these monsters among us.

[soryang]

4. From the KCNA Watch translation

Some of the personal remarks pertaining to Yoon: that he is simple and childish; inexperienced; losing public support; "even a child would know;" "lives in his own world;" and is this the best South Korea could do? She also referred to his boldness and ignorance and commented that it would take him three years to learn his job. Also, Yoon should worry about his economy and people's livelihood, because he might be ousted at any time.

Not too far off the mark. Yoon's disapproval rating rating now between 64 and 70 percent in South Korea depending on the poll. Approval rating 25 to 29.5 percent. Labor unrest, economic difficulties, unpopularity of Yoon's resort to red baiting and persecution of political rivals. His proposals regarding "strategic assets" and THAAD are not popular either. Yoon's failure to manage the recent flooding in Seoul and surrounding region is regarded as displaying his arbitrary disregard of the welfare of the public. Rarely if ever, reported in US media.

He is a Milton Friedman trickle down advocate. Major US Unions had to intervene directly to get a South Korea labor leader out of jail recently. The US embassy assisted the effort, because it is plainly politically embarrassing. Yoon's efforts to recreate the police state under dictator Chun Doo-hwan, by placing the National Police Agency under the Ministry of Interior and Public Safety, and administratively reversing the National Assembly's prosecutorial reform law, is also unpopular.

[oldsoftie]

5. Fine. Fuck you & your people. Starve.