North Korea rejects economic aid plan offered by Seoul

19 (EUROPE PRESS)

Kim Yo Jong, the sister of the North Korean president, rejected this Friday the economic aid plan offered by the South Korean government in exchange for denuclearization measures.

North Korea “will never accept the bold initiative” of Yoon Suk Yeol’s government, Kim said, according to the South Korean news agency Yunhap.

“I don’t know what brazen ideas they will knock on the door with in the future, but I make it clear that we will never deal with it,” Kim said, after criticizing the plan as “the height of madness” and describing it as a copy of the failed plan of the conservative government of former President Lee Myung Bak.

South Korea’s president announced on Monday that he would be willing to offer a major economic aid package to his northern neighbor in exchange for denuclearization.

This plan would take place in the event that Pyongyang decides to take the path of denuclearization, a measure that it considers “essential” to achieve sustainable peace in the region, the Yonhap news agency reported.

To this end, Seoul offered a large-scale food program, as well as assistance to improve infrastructure in the energy sector or modernize ports and airports to deal with international trade. Yoon has also proposed granting aid for efficiency in the agricultural, health or financial sectors.

SOUTH KOREA REGRET ‘RUDE’ COMMENTS

The office of the President of South Korea has reacted to the statements of the North Korean president’s sister, calling them “rude” words.

“We find it very regrettable that North Korea continues to use foul language while mentioning the president by name and continues to express its nuclear development intentions while distorting our ‘bold plan,'” Yoon’s office said in a statement. yunhap.

In addition, from Seoul they indicate that “such an attitude of North Korea is not useful” neither for the future of Pyongyang nor “for the peace and prosperity of the peninsula”. “It will only accelerate its international isolation,” the text concludes.