North Korea accuses UN chief of siding with South Korea over border tensions
Kim Yo-jong accused the U.N. chief of echoing Seoul after a mine blast wounded three South Korean soldiers, two seriously.
- On Tuesday, Kim Yo-jong rejected Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' call for inter-Korean dialogue, accusing him of taking a "prejudiced and irresponsible attitude" toward peninsula tensions.
- Tensions escalated following a September 21 land mine explosion inside the Demilitarized Zone that injured three soldiers, with Seoul claiming North Korean troops planted the mines in violation of the Korean War Armistice Agreement.
- Kim stated the North's border fortification "never violates the Charter," describing Guterres' appeal as "echoing the ROK's unilateral and provocative sophism" in violation of neutrality requirements.
- In an October 22 letter, South Korea raised the mine incident with the Security Council, while Guterres urged both Koreas to restore military communication lines to mitigate escalation risks.
- Kim Jong-un recently inspected the construction of a "huge" new warship to modernise the nation's navy, an action coinciding with escalating tensions along the inter-Korean border.
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Kim Yo Jong accused U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres of taking South Korea’s side after he urged the two Koreas to ease tensions through dialogue. The dispute follows a landmine blast near the border that injured South Korean soldiers; Seoul blames North Korea, which denies responsibility. · 15 sources across the spectrum on IJR News.
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The North Korean leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong accused the U.N. secretary-general of taking a “prejudiced and irresponsible attitude” toward tensions on the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, after he recently warned of escalation risks along the inter-Korean border. In a statement, Kim said Secretary-General António Guterres’ call for renewed dialogue amounted to “echoing the ROK’s […]
Kim Yo Jong accuses Antonio Guterres of siding with South Korea over disputed mine explosion near border
Kim Yo-jong, Director of the General Affairs Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, criticized UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the 10th, stating, “For a person in the position of UN Secretary-General to simply repeat the provocations’ rhetoric and shield and defend them without a clear understanding of the reality does not help at all in easing tensions.” Secretary-General Guterres
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