North criticizes US-South Korean drills before allies meet


In this file photo taken on April 27, 2018, North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un signs the guest book next to his sister Kim Yo-jong during the Inter-Korean summit at the Peace House building on South Korea's side of the truce village of Panmunjom. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister Kim Yo-jong warned the US against actions that could make it "lose sleep", state media reported on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, as top Biden administration officials began a visit to key allies Tokyo and Seoul. - AFP

SEOUL, March 16 (AP): In North Korea’s first comments directed at the Biden administration, Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister criticized the United States and South Korea for holding military exercises and warned the US against further provocations if it wants a "good night’s sleep for the next four years.”

Kim Yo-jong’s statement Tuesday was issued as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Asia to talk to US allies Japan and South Korea about North Korea and other regional issues. They have meetings in Tokyo on Tuesday before speaking to officials in Seoul the next day.

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