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For the second time in three days, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un berated South Korea for touting its supposed pre-emptive strike capabilities against the North, saying her country’s nuclear forces would annihilate the South’s conventional forces if provoked. In a statement carried Tuesday by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, Kim Yo-jong called South Korea Defence Minister Suh Wook’s recent comments about pre-emptive strikes a “fantastic daydream” and the “hysteria of a lunatic”. She stressed that North Korea does not want another war on the Korean peninsula but warned it would retaliate with its nuclear...
