N. Korean leader's sister says it has no reason to sit down with Seoul for talks

The North Korean leader's powerful sister says the regime has no interest in talking with South Korea showing no will for dialogue.

She also says inviting Kim Jong-un to APEC 2025 Korea would be a "foolish delusion."

Our Choi Soo-hyung reports.

In its first official response to the Lee administration, North Korea says it has no interest in any policy or proposal by South Korea, and sees no reason to sit down with Seoul for talks.

On Monday, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the regime's leader Kim Jong-un, said through the North's Korean Central News Agency that "no matter how much the Lee Jae Myung government tries to act like a fellow Korean to draw our attention or gain international spotlight, we still see them as an enemy."

She also said that state-to-state relations on the Korean Peninsula are now permanent, and strongly criticized the South for trying to pursue unification through absorption, using the Ministry of Unification as a front.

Kim said that, looking at around the first 50 days of Lee's administration, it is no different from his predecessor in blindly following the South Korea and U.S. alliance, pursuing confrontation with the North.

On the recent halting of loudspeaker broadcasts by the South,

Kim said it is a problem Seoul created on its own, and that the end of the broadcasts are merely a reversal of something that should not have been done in the first place.

She added it does not merit any evaluation.

Kim also warned that it would be a serious mistake for Seoul to think that a few sentimental words could undo the extreme confrontation it had previously created.

Regarding speculation that the North's leader, Kim Jong-un might be invited to the APEC 2025 KOREA, she dismissed it as "a foolish delusion."

Choi Soo-hyung, Arirang News.