North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister warned the Biden administration on Monday that military action near the country’s border could cause Americans to “lose sleep,” media reported Tuesday. state.
The statement was handed over by Kim Yo-jong to Pyongyang’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper on Tuesday, and comes after the U.S. began joint military exercises with South Korea last week.
In the statement, Jong offered “advice to the new U.S. administration struggling to spread the smell of gunpowder in our land.
“If you want to sleep well for the next four years, it would be best not to create jobs from the beginning that make you lose sleep,” he said.
The comments were North Korea’s first reference to Biden since his election, but he was not named.
Two of the president’s top officials, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, arrived in Japan on Monday as part of a four-day trip to reiterate the United States’ commitment to the United States. its allies in the face of the expansion of China’s influence in the region.
The visit is the first trip abroad for the two members of Biden’s cabinet, who will also meet with their counterparts in Seoul.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the U.S. government has arrived in North Korea, but has not received a response.
With publishing cables