Direct warning to the United States: A "disgusting statement" came back as boomerang?

Direct warning to the United States: A "disgusting statement" came back as boomerang?

She said this after Washington asked the United Nations to condemn Pyongyang for launching an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Kim Yo Jong, who is widely considered North Korea’s second most powerful person after her brother North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, lambasted the United States for issuing what she called “a disgusting joint statement together with such rabbles as Britain, France, Australia, Japan and South Korea”, as the AP reports.

Kim compared the United States to “a barking dog seized with fear.” She said North Korea would consider the U.S.-led statement “a wanton violation of our sovereignty and a grave political provocation.”

“The U.S. should be mindful that no matter how desperately it may seek to disarm North Korea, it can never deprive North Korea of its right to self-defense and that the more hell-bent it gets on the anti-North Korea acts, it will face a more fatal security crisis,” she said in a statement carried by state media.

North Korea has said its testing activities are legitimate exercises of its right to self-defense in response to regular military drills between the United States and South Korea which it views as an invasion rehearsal. Washington and Seoul officials say the exercises are defensive in nature.

Kim Yo Jong said the fact that North Korea's ICBM launch was discussed at the Security Council is “evidently the application of double-standards” by the U.N. body because it “turned blind eyes” to the U.S.-South Korean military drills. She said North Korea won't tolerate any attempt to undermine its right to self-defense and will take “the toughest counteraction to the last" to protect its national security.