The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday denied Seoul's claim that the North had begun removing propaganda speakers inside the DMZ and dismissed South Korean outreach efforts as a "pipedream," state-run media reported.

South Korea is "misleading the public opinion by saying that we have removed the loudspeakers installed on the southern border area," Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

"It is unfounded unilateral supposition and a red herring," she said. "We have never removed loudspeakers installed on the border area and are not willing to remove them."

The South's military removed its anti-Pyongyang propaganda loudspeakers from border areas inside the DMZ last week. The Joint Chiefs of Staff reported over the

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