North Korean leader's sister criticizes US-South Korea joint drills

Kim Yo Jong Criticizes US-South Korea Joint Drills A Dangerous Pretext for Provocation?

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister Kim Yo Jong has criticized the United States and South Korea for proceeding with their annual joint military exercises. She warned that any challenge to the North's safety would bring terrible consequences. The allies started their 11-day Freedom Shield exercise involving thousands of troops, while Washington also wages an escalating war in the Middle East.

Freedom Shield is one of two annual command-post exercises conducted by the US and South Korean militaries. The largely computer-simulated drills are designed to test the allies' joint operational capabilities while incorporating evolving war scenarios and security challenges. North Korea has long portrayed the allies' joint drills as invasion rehearsals and often used them as a pretext to ramp up its own military demonstrations or weapons tests. The allies say the exercises are defensive in nature.

North Korea has increasingly framed its foreign policy around the idea of a new Cold War, deepening ties with Moscow and Beijing while portraying Pyongyang as part of a united front against Washington.

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