The North Korean leader’s sister accuses Zelensky of asking the US for nuclear weapons

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1 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of the North Korean leader, has accused Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski this Saturday of being behind an internet campaign for Kiev to request nuclear weapons from the United States, in response to the Russian initiative to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus as a pressure measure during its invasion of Ukraine.

Kim Jong Un’s sister, officially deputy department head in the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of North Korea, is one of the most active and aggressive voices in the North Korean government.

In his latest comments, collected by the official South Korean news agency Yonhap, Kim has accused Zelenski of having prepared the publication of an online petition on the website of the Ukrainian Presidency. “The fate of the country is being gambled,” Kim declared before accusing the Ukrainian authorities of being “possessed by the incurable megalomaniac belief that they can defeat Russia.”

“All this talk by Zelensky about the arrival of American nuclear weapons, or the independent development of nuclear weapons, is nothing more than a manifestation of his own very dangerous political ambition to prolong at all costs the days he has left by gambling his fate. of the country and its people,” according to the note.

Zelensky is credited with statements made last year about the use of nuclear weapons but the Ukrainian government claims his words, delivered at a Lowy Institute event, were misinterpreted.

The senior North Korean official expressed her suspicions about the legitimacy of this online petition. “One can interpret that there is a plausible veil of popular expression, but it is also not difficult to guess that (this petition) is the product of a sinister political plot by the authorities,” she said.

Lastly, Kim has recommended that Ukraine not be too confident in its relations with the United States. “If the authorities and Zelensky think they can prevent powerful Russian fire under the US nuclear umbrella — which, by the way, has already been drilled — I would tell them they are headed the wrong way, for the last time.” has threatened.