The sister of the manager Kim Jong -un qualified this offer – which provided for food aid, energy and infrastructure if Pyongyang abandoned his nuclear armament program – of “summit of absurdity”.
Le Monde with AFP
The very influential sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un categorically rejected on Friday August 19 an offer of economic aid made by the South Korean government. South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol offered a food aid plan, energy and infrastructure this week if it abandoned its nuclear weapons program.
Analysts considered very thin the chances so that Pyongyang accepted this offer, formulated for the first time in May by Mr. Yoon during his inaugural speech, North Korea having long affirmed that it would never accept a such compromise. This offer is a “summit of absurdity”, reacted Kim Yo-Jong on Friday, Kim Jong-un.
“simple and childish”
“When we think that the plan to swap” economic cooperation “against our honor, (our) nuclear weapons, is the big dream, hope and Yoon’s plan, we realize that it is really Simple and still childish, “she said, quoted by the official agency KCNA. “It is clear that we are not going to sit face to face with him,” she added.
North Korea has carried out a record series of arms tests this year, in particular by drawing an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time since 2017. Washington and South Korean officials have warned several times that the North was preparing to resume nuclear tests.