Tensions between the two Koreas are running high after Pyongyang signed a mutual defense pact with Russia and sent trash-filled balloons over to South Korea in response to South Korean activists' balloon launches with anti-North Korea leaflets
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SEOUL, South Korea – Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accused South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol of generating tensions on the Korean peninsula to divert attention from problems at home, state media said on Monday, July 8. “Yoon and his group, plunged into the worst ruling crisis, are attempting an ’emergency escape’ through the platform of ever-escalating tensions,” Kim Yo Jong said, according to KCNA.Seoul’s unification ministry handling inter-Korean affairs expressed regret over Kim’s remarks condemning Yoon.
Kim Yo Jong also called South’s recent firing drills near the border an “inexcusable and explicit provocation”.
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