- Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, on Thursday accused the U.S. of “gangster-like” hypocrisy for its criticisms of North Korea’s failed attempt to launch a military spy satellite.
- Kim Yo Jong said the U.S. “is letting loose a hackneyed gibberish prompted by its brigandish and abnormal thinking,” knocking the country for criticizing North Korea’s satellite plans when it has launched satellites of its own.
- “The far-fetched logic that only the DPRK should not be allowed to do so according to the [U.N. Security Council’s] ‘resolution’ which bans the use of ballistic rocket technology irrespective of its purpose, though other countries are doing so, is clearly a gangster-like and wrong one of seriously violating the DPRK’s right to use space and illegally oppressing it,” she said in a statement broadcast on state media.
