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Kim Yo Jong says ROK resumed border drills to distract from Yoon’s unpopularity

North Korean leader’s sister slams artillery live fire as ‘suicidal hysteria,’ threatening nuclear response

South Korea has resumed live-fire drills on North Korea’s doorstep to distract people from calls to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol, Kim Yo Jong claimed on Sunday, condemning the military exercises near the inter-Korean border.

In a statement, the DPRK leader’s powerful sister warned that North Korea’s armed forces will carry out their constitutional “mission and duty” — codewords for the use of nuclear weapons — if Pyongyang concludes that the ROK has violated its sovereignty through the drills.

“I affirm that such an undisguised war game being staged by the enemy near the border of the DPRK is just