Kim Yo-Jong Criticizes South Korea for Medical Aid Offer
This response from Kim Yo-jong demonstrates how the mentality of the regime has changed under Kim Jong-un. Before North Korea would gladly suck as much aid out of South Korea and the international community as possible, now they view aid as an insult to the regime:
Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, on Friday reiterated Pyongyang’s rejection of South Korea’s offer to provide humanitarian medical assistance, criticizing the gesture as a “farce.”
Kim’s statement carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) came a day after she rejected Seoul’s plan to send 1,431 medical items across 166 categories to a hospital in Pyongyang, as part of a humanitarian medical support program. She called the offer an “insult” and “political provocation.”
“The racket of ‘mine explosion’ and the farce of ‘medical equipment support’ orchestrated by the ROK are just the two sides of the same coin minted by its inveterate bad habit of escalating confrontation with our state.” ROK stands for the Republic of Korea, South Korea’s official name.
Kim claimed that South Korea’s medical aid proposal and its accusations against North Korea over a recent land mine explosion near the inter-Korean border were intended to damage Pyongyang’s reputation and image.
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