New South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol unveiled the broad contours of his “audacious” plan for inter-Korean relations last week, promising a slew of economic incentives for North Korea if it makes substantial progress toward denuclearization. 

Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, quickly responded: “We hate Yoon Suk-yeol as a human,” she snapped. “I don’t know what kind of flashy plan [Seoul] will come up with in the future, but I declare now that we will never, ever consider them.”

This was a predictable response as Pyongyang has for years maintained that