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The powerful sister of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, Kim Yo-jong has threatened to unleash “the most horrible and distressing situation” on South Korea if it continues, as Pyongyang claims, to interfere in their affairs.
Visiting fortifications along the border, Kim said unspecified new countermeasures are on alert and new loudspeakers for “psychological warfare” will be operational in a matter of days.
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Meanwhile in the US, Ilhan Omar has responded to claims she was related to her former husband, rejecting the unsubstantiated claim she married her brother.
One source told the New York Post this week that DNA evidence was critical to proving an allegation that Omar married her brother when she wed Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 because she was trying to help him get a green card.
The Minnesota congresswoman, 44, addressed the allegation during her first television interview since federal investigators searched her Washington home on October 12.
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