# Kim Yo Jong warns of stronger response to US-led drills

https://mins.news/en/item/63300

- Reuters, 2026-09-17 21:25 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-yo-jong-warns-stronger-response-us-led-drills-2026-09-17/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6aac5aaefbc2160001c2ba91

> Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, called U.S.-led multinational exercises such as the Pacific Vanguard naval drill the “main source” of worsening tensions on the Korean Peninsula. She said Pyongyang’s course of strengthening its nuclear deterrent would “never ever” change.

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