N Korea tells S Korea’s Yoon to ‘shut his mouth’ after aid offer

North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, has bluntly rejected a South Korean offer to help boost the isolated country’s economy if it gives up nuclear weapons.
Kim’s comments mark the first time a senior North Korean official has commented directly on what South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol has dubbed an “audacious plan” under which South Korea would offer phased economic aid to Pyongyang if it began denuclearisation.

Yoon reiterated the offer on Wednesday at a news conference to mark his first 100 days in office.

“It would have been more favourable for his image to shut his mouth,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement released by state news agency KCNA, calling Yoon “really simple and still childish” to think that he could trade economic cooperation for North Korea’s honour and nuclear weapons.