North Korea calls South Korea’s peace overtures ‘great miscalculation’
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North Korea calls South Korea’s peace overtures ‘great miscalculation’
This is a look at how the world has reacted to the events of the past few days in the U.S. and around the world. This is an attempt to see what the reaction has been from around the globe to this week’s events in Washington, D.C., Paris, London, New York, and London. This article is based on a version of this article published on CNN.com. It includes comments from CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. The article was published on Monday, November 6, 2014. This was the first day of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, which began on Tuesday, November 7, 2014, and ended on Wednesday, November 8, 2014 in Beijing. The event was to be the first in a series of events to be held across the world to mark the start of the Winter Olympics. The first event was held in Beijing’s Olympic Stadium, which is the largest in the world, and the second was in London’s Olympic stadium, which has the world’s largest capacity of 1,000,000 people. The third was in Paris, the fourth was in Berlin, the fifth was in Madrid, the
Item 1 of 2 Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un attends wreath laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam March 2, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/Pool/FIle Photo
Summary S.Korea shut down anti-North propaganda broadcasts, leaflets
Powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un jeers South’s peace moves
Says Lee’s US pledge shows he is no different from predecessor
Seoul says comments show great distrust between rivals
SEOUL, July 28 (Reuters) – North Korea has no interest in any policy or proposals for reconciliation from South Korea, the powerful sister of its leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday, in the first response to peace overtures by the South’s liberal President Lee Jae Myung.
There had been cautious optimism in the South that the North might respond positively and even show willingness to return to dialogue after Pyongyang also shut off its propaganda loudspeakers, a move that Lee said came sooner than expected.
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Kim Yo Jong, a senior official of North Korea’s ruling party who is believed to speak for its leader, said Lee’s pledge of commitment to the South Korea-U.S. security alliance showed he was no different from his hostile predecessor.
“If South Korea expects to reverse all the consequences of (its actions) with a few sentimental words, there could be no greater miscalculation than that,” Kim said in comments carried by the official KCNA news agency.
Lee, who took office on June 4 after winning a snap election following the removal of hardline conservative Yoon Suk Yeol over a failed attempt at martial law, has vowed to improve ties with Pyongyang that had reached their worst level in years.
Among gestures to ease tension, Lee suspended loudspeaker broadcasts blasting anti-North propaganda across the border and banned the balloon drops of leaflets by activists that had angered Pyongyang.
Kim, the North Korean official, called those moves merely a reversal of ill-intentioned activities South Korea should never have initiated.
“In other words, it’s not even something worth our assessment,” she said.
“We again make clear the official position that whatever policy is established in Seoul or proposal is made, we are not interested, and we will not be sitting down with South Korea and there is nothing to discuss.”
Following the KCNA comments on Monday, Lee said it was important to restore trust between the neighbours.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry, charged with handling ties between the two countries, said Kim Yo Jong’s comments “show the wall of distrust between the South and the North is very high as a result of hostile and confrontational policy over the past few years”.
South Korea will keep up efforts for reconciliation and cooperation with the North, ministry spokesperson Koo Byoung-sam told a briefing.
Its new unification minister, Chung Dong-young, said he planned to advise Lee to adjust joint military drills with the United States, Yonhap said. The exercises have been criticised by Pyongyang.
Still, Lee, whose government is embroiled in tough negotiations with Washington to avert punishing tariffs threatened by President Donald Trump , has called the U.S. alliance the pillar of South Korea’s diplomacy.
Seoul would make efforts in all areas to “strengthen the South Korea-U.S. alliance that was sealed in blood”, Lee said on the anniversary of the Korean War armistice on Sunday.
North Korea held a parade in its capital of Pyongyang to mark the event it calls victory day, though state media reports indicated it was on a smaller scale than in some previous years.
Columns of marching soldiers held portraits of commanders, including state founder Kim Il Sung, with spectators and frail veterans in historic army uniforms in attendance in state media pictures, which did not show major weapons in the parade.
A formation of military jets flew over the Pyongyang Gymnasium square trailing streaks of flares and fireworks. State media made no mention of leader Kim Jong Un’s attendance.
The two Koreas, the United States and China, which were the main belligerents in the 1950-53 Korean War, have not signed a peace treaty.
Reporting by Jack Kim; Additional reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by Stephen Coates and Clarence Fernandez
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North Korea calls South Korea’s peace overtures ‘great miscalculation’
This is a look at how the world has reacted to the events of the past few days in the U.S. and around the world. This is an attempt to see what the reaction has been from around the globe to this week’s events in Washington, D.C., Paris, London, New York, and London. This article is based on a version of this article published on CNN.com. It includes comments from CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. The article was published on Monday, November 6, 2014. This was the first day of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, which began on Tuesday, November 7, 2014, and ended on Wednesday, November 8, 2014 in Beijing. The event was to be the first in a series of events to be held across the world to mark the start of the Winter Olympics. The first event was held in Beijing’s Olympic Stadium, which is the largest in the world, and the second was in London’s Olympic stadium, which has the world’s largest capacity of 1,000,000 people. The third was in Paris, the fourth was in Berlin, the fifth was in Madrid, the
Item 1 of 2 Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un attends wreath laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam March 2, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/Pool/FIle Photo
Summary S.Korea shut down anti-North propaganda broadcasts, leaflets
Powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un jeers South’s peace moves
Says Lee’s US pledge shows he is no different from predecessor
Seoul says comments show great distrust between rivals
SEOUL, July 28 (Reuters) – North Korea has no interest in any policy or proposals for reconciliation from South Korea, the powerful sister of its leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday, in the first response to peace overtures by the South’s liberal President Lee Jae Myung.
There had been cautious optimism in the South that the North might respond positively and even show willingness to return to dialogue after Pyongyang also shut off its propaganda loudspeakers, a move that Lee said came sooner than expected.
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Kim Yo Jong, a senior official of North Korea’s ruling party who is believed to speak for its leader, said Lee’s pledge of commitment to the South Korea-U.S. security alliance showed he was no different from his hostile predecessor.
“If South Korea expects to reverse all the consequences of (its actions) with a few sentimental words, there could be no greater miscalculation than that,” Kim said in comments carried by the official KCNA news agency.
Lee, who took office on June 4 after winning a snap election following the removal of hardline conservative Yoon Suk Yeol over a failed attempt at martial law, has vowed to improve ties with Pyongyang that had reached their worst level in years.
Among gestures to ease tension, Lee suspended loudspeaker broadcasts blasting anti-North propaganda across the border and banned the balloon drops of leaflets by activists that had angered Pyongyang.
Kim, the North Korean official, called those moves merely a reversal of ill-intentioned activities South Korea should never have initiated.
“In other words, it’s not even something worth our assessment,” she said.
“We again make clear the official position that whatever policy is established in Seoul or proposal is made, we are not interested, and we will not be sitting down with South Korea and there is nothing to discuss.”
Following the KCNA comments on Monday, Lee said it was important to restore trust between the neighbours.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry, charged with handling ties between the two countries, said Kim Yo Jong’s comments “show the wall of distrust between the South and the North is very high as a result of hostile and confrontational policy over the past few years”.
South Korea will keep up efforts for reconciliation and cooperation with the North, ministry spokesperson Koo Byoung-sam told a briefing.
Its new unification minister, Chung Dong-young, said he planned to advise Lee to adjust joint military drills with the United States, Yonhap said. The exercises have been criticised by Pyongyang.
Still, Lee, whose government is embroiled in tough negotiations with Washington to avert punishing tariffs threatened by President Donald Trump , has called the U.S. alliance the pillar of South Korea’s diplomacy.
Seoul would make efforts in all areas to “strengthen the South Korea-U.S. alliance that was sealed in blood”, Lee said on the anniversary of the Korean War armistice on Sunday.
North Korea held a parade in its capital of Pyongyang to mark the event it calls victory day, though state media reports indicated it was on a smaller scale than in some previous years.
Columns of marching soldiers held portraits of commanders, including state founder Kim Il Sung, with spectators and frail veterans in historic army uniforms in attendance in state media pictures, which did not show major weapons in the parade.
A formation of military jets flew over the Pyongyang Gymnasium square trailing streaks of flares and fireworks. State media made no mention of leader Kim Jong Un’s attendance.
The two Koreas, the United States and China, which were the main belligerents in the 1950-53 Korean War, have not signed a peace treaty.
Reporting by Jack Kim; Additional reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by Stephen Coates and Clarence Fernandez
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