North Korea mocks "stupid fools" over Kim Yo Jong statement, calling their reactions a pipe dream and likening them to mangy dogs barking in chorus

[Financial News] North Korea has issued a barrage of anti-South Korea statements so rambling and vitriolic that they can hardly be seen as coming from a normal state. Jang Kum Chol, first vice minister and director of the 10th Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, released a statement on the 7th filled with crude insults directed at the South. He asserted that there can be no change in North Korea's identity that defines South Korea as its most hostile adversary. He also openly lashed out at reactions in various sectors of South Korea, including Cheong Wa Dae, saying they were making "nonsense like a pipe dream" about the statement issued a day earlier by Kim Yo Jong, a senior official of the Workers' Party. The 10th Bureau, which released this statement, is an organization in charge of inter-Korean affairs that was recently absorbed into the foreign ministry.
In the statement, North Korea said, "On the night of the 6th, Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued a statement concerning South Korea. The analyses coming from various circles in South Korea, including Cheong Wa Dae, are truly ridiculous."
It sneered that the South Korean side was treating the North Korean government's swift response as an "unusually friendly reaction" and a "prompt mutual confirmation of intent between leaders," and thus "talking nonsense like a pipe dream." It went on to say that this too would go down as a hope-filled misinterpretation by "stupid fools" that astonishes the world.
North Korea then insisted that the core of Kim Yo Jong's statement was a clear warning. It claimed that her message, though brief and couched in polite language, was a witty warning aimed at the South. It added that the South Korean side was too dull to grasp what was being said.
However, the basic thrust of the statement, as North Korea itself summarized it, was: "You did well; if you want to live safely, you must know how to frankly admit your own crimes; among the shameless crowd there was at least one person who was fairly honest... if you want to live safely, prevent a recurrence; if you keep clowning around in front of us, it will not end well; if you want to live in peace, stop meddling with us!"
North Korea also revealed that Kim Yo Jong, while referring a few days ago to a resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), described South Korea as mangy dogs that mindlessly bark along just because the neighborhood dogs are barking.

rainman@fnnews.com Reporter Kim Kyung-soo Reporter