Here we go again with Kim Yo-jong playing the bad cop for the North Korean regime:
A Lockheed Martin U-2S high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft lands at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, after completing a mission Tuesday afternoon. Seoul and Washington kicked off their four-day crisis management staff training Tuesday as a prelude to their annual summertime military exercise next week, and Kim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader’s sister, issued a statement the same day slamming the joint drill. [NEWS1]
Kim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader’s sister, lambasted Seoul and Washington Tuesday for their annual summertime joint military exercise and demanded the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula.
Through an English-language statement in the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim expressed her “deep regret at the perfidious behavior of the south Korean authorities,” warning that a “a dear price should be paid.”
South Korea and the United States kicked off Tuesday a four-day crisis management staff training as a prelude to their main annual summertime joint exercise scheduled from Aug. 16 to 26.
You can read more at the link, but the Joint CCPT exercise has reportedly already been significantly scaled down; to scale it down anymore would probably turn it into a meeting and Kim Yo-jong would probably still complain.
No matter what the combined US-ROK exercise is called North Korea is still going to complain about it:
Hellicopters and vehicles are deployed at U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, during this year’s first Combined Command Post Training between South Korea and the U.S. in this March 8 photo. The two sides are yet to reveal the scale of the drill, which is anticipated to take place next month. Yonhap
North Korea has resumed its belligerent rhetoric against a combined summertime military exercise between Seoul and Washington, raising questions about whether the Kim Jong-un regime will escalate the situation with a military provocation.
Uriminzokkiri, a North Korean propaganda website, issued a warning Tuesday to South Korea and the U.S. with regard to the drill expected to be held in August, saying that “war exercises” and peace cannot exist simultaneously.
“The current instability on the Korean Peninsula is fully attributable to the warmongers among the South Korean military colluding with an outside power, and engaging in reckless, confrontational machinations,” the website commented.
Citing previous exercises including the Combined Command Post Training in March and Seoul’s participation in the cooperative maritime exercise Pacific Vanguard, it alleged “(South Korea) showed its craze for war exercises.”
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