Kim Yo Jong: North Korea leader denies removing propaganda loudspeakers at border

Kim Jong Un's sister added that the country had 'no will' to improve relations with South Korea.

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North Korea has "never removed" the speakers and "are not willing to remove them", Kim Yo Jong said in a statement published by state media KCNA on Thursday.

"We have clarified on several occasions that we have no will to improve relations with [South Korea]," she said, adding that this stance "will be fixed in our constitution in the future".

South Korea's military said earlier this week that North Korea had removed some of its loudspeakers along the border - days after South Korea dismantled some of its own.

Kim, the deputy director of North Korea's propaganda department, said Seoul's claim was an "unfounded unilateral supposition and a red herring".