“As far as Seoul’s various hope-filled wild dreams called ‘repair of DPRK-ROK relations’ are concerned, they all can never come true,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, using the acronyms for the official names of both countries.
Pyongyang said over the weekend that it shot down a drone near the North Korean city of Kaesong in early January after it crossed from the South Korean border county of Ganghwa.
Seoul denied the claim, saying the drone shown in photos released by Pyongyang was not a model its military operates.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered a joint military-police probe into the drone case, saying any civilian involvement would be “a serious crime that threatens peace on the Korean Peninsula”.
Kim Yo Jong said the North sees the incident as a grave provocation.