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North Korea's Kim Yo Jong slams South's 'blind trust' in US, rejects talks

Iran Press TV

Monday, 28 July 2025 8:37 AM

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, has rejected the prospect of dialogue with South Korea, criticizing Seoul's "blind trust" in its alliance with the United States.

Kim said on Monday that Pyongyang had "no interest" in efforts by the administration of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung to improve relations between the neighbors, highlighting that South Korea's ongoing military ties with Washington made any efforts at rapprochement pointless.

Lee was elected in June after former President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed from office over his botched martial law attempt.

"We did not care who is elected president or what policy is being pursued in the ROK and, therefore, have not made any assessment of it so far," Kim said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, referring to South Korea by its official name Republic of Korea (ROK).

"When only the 50-odd days since Lee Jae Myung's assumption to power are brought to light ... their blind trust to the ROK-US alliance and their attempt to stand in confrontation with the DPRK are little short of their predecessor's," Kim said, using the official acronym for North Korea.

"We clarify once again the official stand that no matter what policy is adopted and whatever proposal is made in Seoul, we have no interest in it and there is neither the reason to meet nor the issue to be discussed," she added.

During his inauguration at Rotunda hall in the National Assembly in Seoul on June 4, South Korea's Lee promised to reopen dialogue with North Korea and restore peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Lee, who hails from the liberal Democratic Party of Korea, said he plans to "deter North Korean nuclear and military provocations while opening communication channels and pursuing dialogue and cooperation to build peace on the Korean Peninsula."

Lee's government has halted anti-Pyongyang frontline loudspeaker broadcasts, taken steps to ban activists from flying balloons with propaganda leaflets across the border, and repatriated North Koreans who had drifted south in wooden boats months earlier.

Kim, however, rejected the administration's gestures in her statement, calling the loudspeaker suspensions "nothing but a reversible turning back of what they should not have done in the first place."

"In other words, it is not the work worthy of appreciation," she said.

Kim pointed out that if the new South Korean president thinks he can sweet-talk them into reconciling the DPRK-ROK relations, he is making a "serious miscalculation."

"If the ROK ... expected that it could reverse all the results it had made with a few sentimental words, nothing is more serious miscalculation than it."

Kim added that the new government still "stands in confrontation" with North Korea. She mentioned the upcoming summertime South Korea-US military drills, which North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal.

In October, North Korea revised its Constitution to declare the South a "hostile state" after Kim Jong Un called for the rejection of the long-held official goal of reunification.