An obscenity-filled speech by the North Korean leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong this week, accusing Seoul of spreading COVID-19 and threatening to “exterminate” ROK leaders, set the stage for future violence against South Korea, experts told NK News on Thursday.
Kim delivered the invective at a national meeting on Wednesday, at which leader Kim Jong Un “declared victory” over COVID-19 and claimed the country had “eradicated” the virus.
An obscenity-filled speech by the North Korean leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong this week, accusing Seoul of spreading COVID-19 and threatening to “exterminate” ROK leaders, set the stage for future violence against South Korea, experts told NK News on Thursday.
Kim delivered the invective at a national meeting on Wednesday, at which leader Kim Jong Un “declared victory” over COVID-19 and claimed the country had “eradicated” the virus.
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