North Korea rejects South’s aid offer, calls President Yoon ‘really simple’

Yoon first proposed what he referred to as an “audacious plan” to swap financial cooperation for an finish to North Korea’s nuclear program throughout his inauguration speech in Could. He has since continued to boost the concept, reiterating the provide this week.

“To assume that the plan to barter ‘financial cooperation’ for our honor, nukes, is the nice dream, hope and plan of Yoon, we got here to comprehend that he’s actually easy and nonetheless infantile,” mentioned Kim Yo Jong, in line with KCNA. “We make it clear that we are going to not sit nose to nose with him.”

South Korea’s Unification Ministry responded on Friday, expressing “robust remorse” over Kim Yo Jong’s “disrespectful feedback.”

It mentioned North Korea had “distorted our concepts and talked about its intention to proceed nuclear improvement as an alternative of responding to the audacious initiative,” including that such an angle wouldn’t solely threaten peace on the Korean Peninsula however worsen North Korea’s personal financial scenario.

Within the KCNA report, Kim Yo Jong additionally mentioned South Korea had pinpointed the improper location for missiles that North Korea launched on Wednesday, and questioned why the South and america had not launched their evaluation of the weapons.

However Kim Yo Jong claimed the take a look at had been carried out from the Kumsong Bridge in Anju metropolis, situated in South Pyongan Province, simply north of the capital Pyongyang. She didn’t give additional particulars of the take a look at.

Wednesday’s take a look at marks North Korea’s 18th missile launch this 12 months, in line with CNN’s depend.

By comparability, the hermit kingdom carried out solely 4 exams in 2020, and eight in 2021.

Tensions between the 2 Koreas have been constructing this 12 months, with US navy and intelligence businesses warning that North Korea seems to be making ready for a nuclear take a look at — which might be its first in 5 years.