Kim Jong Un's sister threatens S. Korea with military action
Source: AP
By KIM TONG-HYUNG
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened military action against South Korea as she bashed Seoul on Saturday over declining bilateral relations and its inability to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.
Describing South Korea as an enemy, Kim Yo Jong repeated an earlier threat she had made by saying Seoul will soon witness the collapse of a useless inter-Korean liaison office in the border town of Kaesong.
Kim, who is first vice department director of the ruling Workers Partys Central Committee, said she would leave it to North Koreas military leaders to carry out the next step of retaliation against the South.
By exercising my power authorized by the supreme leader, our party and the state, I gave an instruction to the arms of the department in charge of the affairs with enemy to decisively carry out the next action, she said in a statement carried by the Norths official Korean Central News Agency.
FILE - In this March 2, 2019, file photo, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened military action against South Korea as she bashed Seoul on Saturday, June 13, 2020, over declining bilateral relations and its inability to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border. Describing South Korea as an enemy, Kim repeated an earlier threat she had made by saying Seoul will soon witness the collapse of a useless inter-Korean liaison office in the border town of Kaesong. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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KewlKat
(5,624 posts)threats? I've not heard much on Kim for awhile now.
Anyone have an update on him?
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)mpcamb
(2,871 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,736 posts)paleotn
(17,931 posts)who killed his citizens for kicks.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)So yeah, she looks surprisingly ordinary.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)She has a face of a psychopath. That is a look that one does not want to get from her. So cold, threatening and humourless. I can only imagine the horrors she has personally ordered and witnessed done against individuals she has decided have wronged her in some way.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)wow. She looks deadly.
BadGimp
(4,015 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)leftieNanner
(15,119 posts)Are we gonna get sucked into a new Korean war? The question for Trumpie - which side are we on?
mpcamb
(2,871 posts)Marcuse
(7,487 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)could be.
Marcuse
(7,487 posts)Jersey Devlin
(85 posts)And if Donnie Douchebag is "re-elected," we're next.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Cant think of another communist country that worked any other way.
Although at the end of the day, I agree with you. Its a dictatorial monarchy. Which will always happen when any country gives total power to one group of people. Perhaps using the no true Scotsman saying we can say this is how all communist countries become?
lordsummerisle
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Kim Yo Jong shatters the North Korean glass ceiling. Not sure if tRump would approve of a woman wielding that kind of power though...
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)She appears to be the new face of the Sabre Rattling by the Kim Family.
boilinmad
(267 posts)The face of evil.
oasis
(49,389 posts)marie999
(3,334 posts)That is a well thought out pose. She is saying "Don't even think of messing with me.". South Korea has a lot more to worry about if she is in charge. I could see her grabbing trump by the balls and saying, "I own you.".
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paleotn
(17,931 posts)...waiting for...the king is dead, God save the queen.
And why not make threats? South Korea's biggest ally is in shambles and at their weakest point in decades. So much winning! Thanks, magats.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)South Korea would squash them like a bug in a military conflict and they know it. The military disparities are glaring even without US troops.
Try to fight a 1960s war against South Korea and they would beat anyone.
Jedi Guy
(3,193 posts)The Norks have a shitload of artillery pointed right at Seoul, and a lot of it is said to be in tunnels and such so a first-strike can't neutralize that capability. They can roll them out and start lobbing shells into a densely populated metro area. A whole boatload of folks in Seoul would die in a few hours.
And if Kim or his sister saw that the war was lost and their regime wouldn't survive the aftermath, I don't think they'd have any qualms about breaking out their nukes. After all, if they're gonna die, why shouldn't millions of innocent people join them?
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I fairly short order. Or their Armor would quickly overrun the positions. Because they would go thru the North like a hot knife thru butter. The north really has few weapons that could destroy a modern main battle tank. With total air superiority.
The nukes are a problem. But if the North did not use them early Im not thinking they ever could. Exploding a nuke underground in a research environment is totally different than delivering one ion the battlefield. We know where they are and the only way they have to launch them is by missile. The first thing South Korea would do is render the site untenable. Being underground is not the same now as in the Korean War. We, and I assume South Korea has ground penetrating missiles that could make launching a missile impossible.
But you are correct Seoul would take some real damage before that happened
The only think keeping the North going is China. The North knows this and will not tangle with South Korea.
The worst thing for the north would be our withdrawal along with the South developing good relations with China. China might decide they could live next to a democratic Korea with less trouble than dealing with Kim and his nuts.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)jrandom421
(1,005 posts)is so starved, when the defector that was shot coming across the DMZ, the doctors were shocked at how malnourished and stunted he was. And he was from an elite military unit that would have been fed better than the general army rank and file.
Someone suggested (jokingly) that the way to stop a North Korean invasion, is to throw open all the fast food joints along the DMZ, offering free meals to North Korean soldiers.
At the Seoul Winter Olympics, there were reports of North Korean athletes camping out at the McDonald's in the Olympic Village and almost missing their events.
Crowman2009
(2,497 posts)No non-vegan can resist the smell of grilled meat.
betsuni
(25,537 posts)This has been my idea as well.
ripcord
(5,408 posts)The one thing a totalitarian government can't deal with is their citizens learning the truth.
EllieBC
(3,016 posts)as well be dead.
Nothing about her and now shes issuing threats? Sounds like shes in command now.
Also why do pamphlets bother them so much? If its such a peoples paradise there no one would believe the pamphlets.
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)She tells everyone he is still alive. They don't dare contradict her or she will have them killed. I'm writing this as satire but also thinking it's a distinct possibility. This world...
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Ratchet up the tensions, then get the Chinese and Russians to come in and broker peace between the two Koreas. Then voila, they all will demand US troops get out and a unified Korea is under the Sino-Russian sphere of influence.