{"id":514845,"date":"2026-03-10T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514845\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:46:08","slug":"north-korean-leaders-sister-criticized-u-s-south-korea-for-proceeding-with-joint-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514845\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean leader\u2019s sister criticized U.S.-South Korea for proceeding with joint drills"},"content":{"rendered":"

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un<\/a> criticized the United States and South Korea for proceeding with their annual joint military exercises at a perilous moment for global security and warned that any challenge to the North\u2019s safety would bring \u201cterrible consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim Yo Jong\u2019s statement Tuesday came a day after the allies started their 11-day Freedom Shield exercise involving thousands of troops, while Washington also wages an escalating war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Without directly referring to the Iran war, Kim said the U.S.-South Korea drills undermine regional stability at a time when the global security structure is \u201ccollapsing rapidly and wars break out in different parts of the world due to the reckless acts of outrageous international rogues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freedom Shield is one of two annual command-post exercises conducted by the U.S. and South Korean militaries. The largely computer-simulated drills are designed to test the allies\u2019 joint operational capabilities while incorporating evolving war scenarios and security challenges. As usual, Freedom Shield will be accompanied by a field training program, called Warrior Shield.<\/p>\n

Mentioning the country\u2019s expanding nuclear program, Kim Yo Jong said North Korea will continue to bolster its \u201cdestructive power\u201d against what it sees as external threats and \u201cconstantly and repeatedly convince the enemies of our war deterrence and its fatality.\u201d<\/p>\n

North Korea has long portrayed the allies\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung acknowledged \u201csome anti-defense weapons\u201d could be relocated by the U.S. but said such moves wouldn\u2019t seriously undermine defenses against North Korea. His comments followed media speculation that the United States was moving some Patriot missile defense systems and other equipment from South Korea to support operations in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur government has expressed opposition to such moves, but it\u2019s also an undeniable reality that we cannot fully control the situation according to our wishes,\u201d Lee said at a Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n

North Korea\u2019s Foreign Ministry last week described the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran as an \u201cillegal act of aggression\u201d carried out under the pretext of \u201cfake peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amid a yearslong diplomatic freeze with Washington and Seoul, Kim Jong Un has increasingly framed his 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.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang and Tehran were among the few governments to support Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, and both have been accused of supplying Russia with military equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticized the United States and South Korea for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-514845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}