Kim Yo-jong, director of the General Affairs Department of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, again denied responsibility for a landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone in a statement on the 2nd, calling the response "the climax of a farce too good to watch alone."
Kim said, "Seoul has this time laid bare, without any filter, its vicious true colors in seeking to once again plunge the situation on the Korean Peninsula into a critical state for its own selfish purposes." She said the South had "hastily reached the absurd conclusion that the landmine explosion along the border was the result of someone's 'covert and deliberate mine-laying,' and went so far as to release a clumsy so-called 'official position statement.'" She added that it had "even gone on about some sort of 'apology,'" dismissing those behind it as "utterly pathetic."
