SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said her country will never see South Korea as a partner for diplomacy, state media reported on Wednesday in what was her latest taunt of Seoul’s new efforts to mend ties.

Kim Yo Jong, who is one of her brother’s top foreign policy officials, denounced the ongoing South Korea-U.S. military drills as a “reckless” invasion rehearsal and claimed Seoul’s peace gestures conceal a “sinister intention” against Pyongyang.

Her comments came during a meeting on Tuesday with senior Foreign Ministry officials about her brother’s diplomatic strategies in the face of persistent threats from rivals and a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said.

On Monday, Kim Jong Un c

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