In the days leading up to the end of the United States and South Korea’s shortened large-scale military exercise on Friday, Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of the North Korean leader, issued her latest tirades against Seoul.

But in her list of grievances carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday and Thursday, she left out the government that, in an apparent effort to appease Pyongyang, abruptly halved the length of the exercise.

Dividing her targets over the two-day span, Kim Yo Jong first took aim at Washington by challenging President Donald Trump’s claim of continued contact