Kim Yo Jong slams UN secretary-general as “ignorant and weak,” accusing him of shifting blame for the landmine incident onto North Korea

[Financial News] Kim Yo Jong, director of the General Affairs Department of North Korea’s Workers’ Party of Korea, lashed out at UN Secretary-General António Guterres, calling him ignorant and weak.
According to the Korean Central News Agency on the 10th, Kim issued a statement denouncing the UN secretary-general for expressing concern over recent tensions on the Korean Peninsula and appealing for a resumption of dialogue.
Kim voiced her displeasure, saying, “The UN secretary-general’s expression of concern and call to resume dialogue may seem to stem from the performance of his duties, whose primary mission is conflict mediation, but in reality, they do nothing more than represent South Korea’s shameless position of trying to shift responsibility for the incident onto us.”
She also claimed, “When someone serving as UN secretary-general simply echoes what provocateurs say and shields and defends them, it does nothing to ease tensions. Instead, it gives them the courage to become even more reckless and encourages their bad habits.”
She further criticized him, saying, “The UN secretary-general’s ignorant and weak attitude is a major factor increasingly driving the UN into dysfunction.”
North Korea claimed that the UN secretary-general, whose 10-year term is nearing its end, has continued to speak and act in a biased and duplicitous manner, without any clear, sound view of his own on issues concerning the Korean Peninsula.
Kim threatened, saying, “I make it clear on this occasion that if an unfortunate situation breaks out in the southern border region because of reckless military provocations by South Korean thugs, the UN secretary-general, too, will in no way be able to escape responsibility.”
In connection with the landmine explosion on September 21 south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the western front, which injured three Army officers, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and North Korea have engaged in a fierce diplomatic war of words, including through letters sent to the UN Security Council and verbal clashes at the UN General Assembly.
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