North Korea’s army will immediately launch a “baptism of fire” in response to any provocation, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said today, in comments carried by the state news agency KCNA.
The remark comes after South Korea’s military said the North fired more than 60 artillery rounds yesterday near their disputed maritime border, following a similar volley of more than 200 there the previous day.
"Let me be clear once again that our army has its trigger already unlocked," Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by KCNA.
"Our army will immediate launch a baptism of fire in case of even a small provocation."
In the statement, Kim denied yesterday’s firing and said the North detonated explosives instead as a deception.
