North Korea declares end to "homogeneous" ties with South Korea in scathing satement

Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, issued a scathing press statement on July 28, signalling a hardened and irreversible stance toward South Korea.

In her statement, Kim Yo Jong dismissed recent overtures from the South Korean government under President Lee Jae-myung, including the suspension of anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts, a halt to leaflet distribution across the border, and proposals for inter-Korean tourism initiatives, as hollow and unworthy of appreciation, Caliber.Az reports.

“These are details of the ‘sincere efforts’ the Lee Jae Myung government made with hope for improved relations,” Kim said, before condemning them as a “reversible turning back of what they should not have done in the first place.”

Kim specifically rejected the recent conciliatory tone from Seoul's new Minister of Unification, Jong Tong Yong, who has advocated for reconciliation and peace-building efforts. She dismissed such gestures as naïve “daydreams” and reiterated that Pyongyang “has no interest” in any proposals emanating from Seoul.

“The DPRK-ROK relations have irreversibly gone beyond the time zone of the concept of homogeneous,” Kim declared, signalling what appears to be a permanent ideological and political rupture between the two Koreas.

According to her, the past few years allowed the North to reach a “very important historical conclusion”—that regardless of whether South Korea adopts democratic or conservative rhetoric, it cannot be considered a “partner of reconciliation and cooperation.”

She also accused the Lee administration of continuing its predecessors’ confrontational path by maintaining military ties with the United States and preparing for upcoming joint military exercises. Such actions, she claimed, would bring “powder fumes” to the region and further destabilise the Korean Peninsula.

In a particularly scathing passage, Kim criticised the very existence of South Korea’s Ministry of Unification, calling for its dissolution as “the state-to-state relations are permanently fixed on the Korean Peninsula.”

Despite early hopes that the new South Korean leadership might usher in a period of dialogue, Kim’s statement has effectively shut the door on bilateral talks. “There is neither the reason to meet nor the issue to be discussed with the ROK,” she concluded.

By Vugar Khalilov