This is how the Kim regime negotiates with the South:
North Korea will take its next step against South Korea, for what it claims to be Seoul’s betrayal and crimes against the communist state, it said Saturday, adding that its army has been entrusted to plan and take any necessary action.
“I feel it is high time to surely break with the South Korean authorities. We will soon take a next action,” Kim Yo-jong, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), said in a statement carried by the North’s Korean Central News Agency.
Kim is also younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
“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,” the statement said.
She added, “the right to taking the next action against the enemy will be entrusted to the General Staff of our army.”
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but I continue to believe the Kim regime is trying to squeeze concession out of the Moon administration. President Moon faces no political hurdles after his ruling party decisively won April’s parliamentary elections, so the Kim regime may be wondering what the hold up is in regards to investment into North Korea and the curtailing of sanctions.
This latest attempt to create a crisis is also clearly being used to build up Kim Yo-jong’s leadership profile within the regime and internationally. It will be interesting to see in the coming months if she continues to take a major role in regime messaging like she is currently doing.
