North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, criticised the Trump administration for stepping up "provocations" and said it justified the nuclear state increasing its nuclear deterrent,

Kim’s ‘carefully calibrated’ remarks are aimed at exploiting Trump’s animosity towards Biden to push the US to change course, analysts say.

A visit by a U.S. aircraft carrier to South Korea prompted a warning from the sister of North Korea’s leader that Washington and Seoul “should not test” the communist regime.