Kim Yo-jong (sister of Kim Jong Un) attends the preliminary match in women's ice hockey between Korea and Switzerland at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Kwandong Hockey Centre, Gangneung. February 10, 2018, Gangneung. (Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images).
Kim Yo-jong stated that North Korea is open to discussing ending the decade-long Korean War.
According to the BBC, she said that South Korea should stop "hostile" actions toward the North.
Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, called the UN earlier this week to end the conflict.
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Kim Yo-jong is the sister to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and said that the country was open to discussing ending the long-running Korean War if South Korea stopped its "hostile" policies.
Moon Jae-in, South Korean president, called on the UN General Assembly earlier this week to end the conflict that has raged for decades. This idea was originally regarded as premature by a North Korean minister.
Yo-jong stated that the idea was "admirable" in a Friday statement. She also said that North Korea would be open to talks with the South if the South stopped its "hostile policies" towards the North, according to the report.
She stated in a statement that she was referring to double-dealing, illogical prejudices, bad habits, and hostile attitudes as well as the dual-dealing attitude, illogical prejudice, poor habits, and the accusation that they are justifying their actions while blaming us for exercising our right to self-defence.
Since 1953, North and South Korea have been at odds. The armistice does not replace a peace treaty. This means that the two countries are technically still involved in the conflict which split the peninsula into two countries seventy years ago.
These comments represent a dramatic shift in Yo-jong's tone.
Insider reported that Yo-jong threatened to increase North Korea's military as a response to the joint military exercises between the US, South Korea and Korea last month.
She said that the dangerous war exercises being pushed forward by the US and South Korean sides, despite our repeated warnings, would surely increase their security risk.
She also accused the US as "chief architect of destroying peace and stability" in the region.
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