KIM Jong-un's deluded sister has warned the US it faces "self-destruction" -despite North Korea being gripped by famine, seeing bodies left strewn in the street.
Kim Yo-Jong said America and South Korea will face new "security threats" in the wake of planned military drills in Korea.
She slammed the "unwelcome, self-destructive action" which she says will only heighten tensions in the region.
The dictator's sister branded the US and South Korea's joint military drills this week "dangerous" and an "act of self-destruction for which a dear price should be paid."
Yo-Jong told North Korean state media KCNA on Tuesday: "They threaten the safety of our people and further imperil the situation on the Korean peninsula.
"They are the most vivid expression of the U.S. hostile policy towards (North Korea), designed to stifle our state by force."
The US and South Korea have previously maintained the annual military drill is purely for defence reasons.
INCREASING TENSIONS
But Yo-Jong, who is believed to be 33-years-old, accused South Korea of "treacherous treatment" – a comment sure to crumble mediations between the two states.
A hotline between Pyongyang and Seoul was recently reconnected after the North cut them last year – and they now seem to already be ignoring routine calls, South Korea said.
Yo-Jong previously said of the drill, "Our government and military will keep a close eye on whether the South Koreans go ahead with the aggressive war exercises, or make a big decision.
"Hope or despair? That's not up to us."
Her latest deflecting outburst comes as North Korea fights food shortages that eerily echo the devastating 1990s famine, which killed millions of people.
There are fears the nation could run out of food in just TWO months, with the dictator even admitting the situation was "getting tense".
Yet North Korea has boldly attempted to insert itself as a player on the world stage by threatening the West – while its citizens struggle to battle famine and Covid.
"BODIES ON THE STREET"
Yeonmi Park, 27, a human rights activist who fled the "brainwashing" totalitarian state, told how she regularly saw "bodies on the street".
Describing seeing people starved to death while growing up inside the hermit kingdom, she told The Sun Online: "Seeing dead people in the street – it's like everyday life.
"I was born at the end of 1993. The regime stopped giving food to the people.
"Three million people died from 1995 to 1998. It’s one of the world’s worst man-made famines in history.
"It was just normal life for me. I didn’t think that life could be different."
Now concerns have been raised any action from North Korea in defiance of the US and South Korea could exacerbate the already dire conditions in the country.
Approximately 28,500 US troops remain stationed in South Korea after the Korean War – an inheritance that often adds fuel to the flames of rows between the North and South.
Military exercises have been dramatically downsized in recent years in a bid to assist negotiations to demolish Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programmes in exchange for US sanctions relief.
But talks quickly collapsed in 2019, leaving North Korea and the US at a stalemate.
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