North Korean Leader's Sister Calls Seoul 'Despicable' After DMZ Apology Demand
Kim Yo Jong called Seoul’s apology demand despicable as North Korea denied planting mines and said the blast claim was groundless.
- On Friday, North Korean official Kim Yo Jong rejected as "groundless" Seoul's accusation that North Korean mines wounded South Korean soldiers in the Demilitarised Zone, dismissing demands for an apology.
- Since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un designated South Korea as his country's "principal enemy" in 2024, Pyongyang has been fortifying the border to seal it off with mines and anti-tank barriers.
- The United Nations Command, which oversees the Korean War armistice, found an active North Korean anti-personnel mine on the southern border after the September 21 incident, declaring it a violation of the armistice.
- South Korea's military demanded an official apology, but Kim dismissed the request as "really despicable," rejecting the notion that Pyongyang deliberately planted mines in the border zone.
- Seeking to restore trust, President Lee reversed the hawkish stance of his predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol since taking power in June 2025, offering Pyongyang talks without preconditions despite the rejection.
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On 21 September in the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, the explosions that left three South Korean soldiers injured occurred.
Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korea's leader, called Seoul “despicable” on Friday after demanding an apology for an explosion in the demilitarized zone that wounded three South Korean soldiers.
South Korea "has gone so far as to talk about a kind of +excuses+," said Kim Yo Jong in a statement. "They are absolutely pathetic," added the younger sister of the North Korean leader, considered one of the regime's heavyweights. Both Koreas are still technically at war, the 1950-1953 conflict having ended with an armistice and not a peace treaty. Three South Korean soldiers were seriously injured and one of them lost a foot in the September 21…
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Pyongyang this week denied being behind a landmine blast that caused severe injuries to three soldiers last month inside the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), the heavily mined buffer dividing the two Koreas since their 1953 armistice. South Korea's military demanded an official apology this week, calling the incident "a clear violation of the Armistice Agreement". In the first public response from Pyongyang, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean lead…
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