SEOUL; The influential sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has condemned South Korea's latest offer of economic aid to Pyongyang in exchange for de-nuclearisation as an "absurd dream".
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been in office for 3 months, said that South Korea was ready to help its neighbour as long as North Korea showed determination to disarm. He said that Seoul would not want "complete denuclearisation before we do anything".
Kim Jong Un's sister Kim Yo Jong urged Yoon's speech "nonsense," "ridiculous" and "pipedream-like remarks" in a press statement titled "Don't have an absurd dream" published by state media on Friday.
The senior official of the ruling Workers' Party reportedly declared on Thursday that the "plan" he had laid out this time was genuinely ludicrous.
Nobody exchanges its fate for corn cake. Kim Yo Jong also admitted a missile launch on Wednesday, but she said South Korean and US reports regarding its location were inaccurate.
As Yoon was speaking, according to Seoul, North Korea fired two allegedly guided missiles toward the Yellow Sea.
UN resolutions forbid North Korea from conducting ballistic missile tests, some of which could be equipped with nuclear bombs. However, the mainly isolated nation is not susceptible to sanctions for conducting cruise missile tests.
International sanctions on Pyongyang are severe due to its nuclear weapons programme.
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