By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-03 22:46:19 | Updated at 2025-03-04 03:59:24
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North Korea’s Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong-un, criticised the Trump administration for stepping up “provocations” and said it justified the nuclear state increasing its nuclear deterrent, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.
“As soon as its new administration appeared this year, the US has stepped up the political and military provocations against the DPRK, ‘carrying forward’ the former administration’s hostile policy,” Kim said.
DPRK is short for North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“Hostile policy toward the DPRK pursued by the US at present is offering sufficient justification for the DPRK to indefinitely bolster … its nuclear war deterrent,” Kim said.
South Korea’s navy said on Sunday the US aircraft carrier arrived at the southern port city of Busan in South Korea as a show of force against North Korea.
