North Korea says the U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea doesn't change what it views as the provocative nature of the drills.

North Korea said Wednesday that a U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea does not change what it sees as the provocative nature of the drills, dampening hopes for an early resumption of diplomacy between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump.

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made the comments Wednesday night in her country’s first reaction to Trump’s moves to drastically cut back the annual U.S.-South Korean military drills.

“We think it’s not worth making comments on that and we have no interest in it at all,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media. “The provocative, aggressive nature of the drills won’t change even though their duration and size were reduced.”

  • Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I think my response to all this would be my initial response again.

    Nobody justifying a despotic leader but explaining why a nation of people are on edge (and probably why they allowed a despotic leader) and yet you say how the US doing something wrong was understandable. I don’t know if you’re noticing the juxtaposition by saying it twice.