No basis for the claim is provided… The Ministry of National Defense reacts angrily after pointing out that ‘North Korea has not even been identified’
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ha Chae-rim = Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea Kim Yo-jong, younger brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, claimed on the 14th, “We clearly know that the main culprits in the Pyongyang drone incident are South Korean military scum.”
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Kim Yo-jong, Vice Director of the Central Committee of the North Korean Workers’ Party
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In a statement released through the Korean Central News Agency on this day, Vice Minister Kim criticized South Korea and the United States with harsh words, saying, “If the sovereignty of a nuclear-weapon state is violated by mixed breed dogs tamed by the Americans, the owners who raised the mutts should be held responsible.” revealed.
The statement on this day appears to be in the nature of a rebuttal to the South Korean Ministry of National Defense’s point the previous day that North Korea “failed to identify the person responsible for the ‘Pyongyang drone distribution of leaflets.'”
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Previously, in a statement on the 12th, Vice Minister Kim Yo-jong revealed the possibility that the subject of the drone incident was a private group, saying, “It is definitely a problem if the military was unable to properly identify the drones flown by private organizations so that they could cross the border arbitrarily.”
Vice Minister Kim claimed that the Korean military was responsible for the drone incident, but did not provide any evidence.
South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense maintains its stance that it “does not confirm” whether the military sent a drone to Pyongyang.
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Since the day after North Korea claimed on the 11th that a South Korean drone had infiltrated the skies over Pyongyang, Vice Minister Kim has been making threats and criticizing South Korea, using harsh language for three consecutive days.
Yang Moo-jin, president of the University of North Korean Studies, said, “In this statement, Vice Minister Kim concluded that the main culprit of the drone incident was our military and even brought up the theory of responsibility for the United States.”
Hong Min, a senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, speculated, “Raising the claim of responsibility by the United States may be an intention for the United States to manage the situation so that tensions do not escalate further over this issue.”
North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed in an ‘important statement’ on the 11th that South Korea had infiltrated a drone into Pyongyang on the 3rd, 9th, and 10th and distributed anti-North Korea leaflets.
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