FILE - In this March 2, 2019, record  photo, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's person  Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremonial  astatine  Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum successful  Hanoi, Vietnam. The almighty  sister of North Korean person  Kim ripped South Korea for proceeding with subject   exercises with the United States she claimed are an penetration  rehearsal and warned that the North volition  velocity  up   its efforts to fortify  its pre-emptive onslaught   capabilities. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - In this March 2, 2019, record photo, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's person Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremonial astatine Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum successful Hanoi, Vietnam. The almighty sister of North Korean person Kim ripped South Korea for proceeding with subject exercises with the United States she claimed are an penetration rehearsal and warned that the North volition velocity up its efforts to fortify its pre-emptive onslaught capabilities. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)

SEOUL – The almighty sister of North Korean person Kim Jong Un ripped South Korea for proceeding with subject exercises with the United States she claimed are an penetration rehearsal and warned Tuesday that the North volition enactment faster to fortify its preemptive onslaught capabilities.

Kim Yo Jong’s connection came aft South Korean media reported the allied militaries volition statesman 4 days of preliminary grooming connected Tuesday earlier holding computer-simulated drills connected Aug. 16-26.

Kim said she was delegated authorization to merchandise the statement, implying the connection came straight from her brother.

She described the South’s determination to clasp associated exercises contempt earlier warnings by the North was an “act of betrayal” that volition propulsion the allies into facing a “more superior information threat.”

She said continuing the drills exposed the hypocrisy of the Biden administration’s offers to resume dialog implicit the North’s atomic weapons program. She said determination won’t beryllium stabilized bid connected the Korean Peninsula unless the United States withdraws its troops and weapons successful the South.

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Kim said the North volition “spur our efforts to further fortify our nationalist defence capabilities and (already) beardown preemptive onslaught ability” truthful that it could swiftly respond to immoderate benignant of subject action.

North Korea’s aggravated absorption to the drills further diminishes South Korean hopes for improving bilateral ties, which roseate aft the North agreed to reopen long-stalled connection channels with the South successful precocious July.

But conscionable days aft the lines were restored, Kim warned that the planned subject drills betwixt South Korea and the United States volition undermine prospects for amended inter-Korean ties.

Some analysts accidental the North’s determination to reconstruct the connection lines was chiefly aimed astatine pushing Seoul to person Washington to marque concessions portion atomic diplomacy remains deadlocked.

The United States keeps astir 28,000 troops successful South Korea to assistance deter imaginable aggression from North Korea, a bequest of the 1950-53 Korean War. The allies person yet to officially denote the details of this month's drills.

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The North has agelong bristled astatine the associated subject exercises betwixt South Korea and the United States, which the allies picture arsenic antiaircraft successful nature, and often responds them with its ain weapons tests.

In the past fewer years, however, South Korea and the United States person canceled oregon downsized immoderate of their grooming to enactment the now-dormant diplomacy connected ending the North Korean atomic situation oregon due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Inter-Korean ties flourished aft North Korea reached retired to South Korea and the United States successful 2018 for talks connected its atomic program. North Korea aboriginal chopped disconnected ties with South Korea aft its larger atomic diplomacy with the United States stalled successful 2019 implicit disagreements successful exchanging the merchandise of crippling U.S.—led sanctions against the North and the North's denuclearization steps.

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