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Colin Zwirko
Colin Zwirko is a Senior Analytic Correspondent for NK News based in Seoul. Follow him on Twitter @ColinZwirko.
Regular U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises should be canceled and a North-South leader-level summit remains unlikely in the short term, according to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, in a statement released Sunday night.
Kim accused the Blue House of "inflating the significance" of last week's reconnection of hotlines between the two Koreas, calling their interpretation of the development "hasty."