Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister and potential successor to North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, has warned U.S. President Donald Trump that Pyongyang has no intention of giving up its nuclear weapons program.

In June last year, North Korean troops violated the border three times, prompting South Korea to fire warning shots. The incidents occurred when the Koreas were embroiled in Cold War-style campaigns like balloon launches and propaganda broadcasts, but they didn’t develop into a major source of tensions.

South Korean soldiers fired warning shots at North Korean troops after nearly a dozen crossed the demilitarised zone separating the warring nations.

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday mocked Washington and its Asian allies for what she called their “daydream” of denuclearizing the North, insisting that the country will never give up its nuclear weapons program.

In a statement published Wednesday by the official Korean Central News Agency (KNCA), the sister of ruler Kim Jong Un said that any discussion of convincing the North to give up its nuclear weapons is

Recognition as nuclear state remains key to Kim Jong-un regime, experts say Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, declared Wednesday that denuclearization is a “dead concept,” reaffirming Pyongyang’s hard-line stance as renewed calls for disarmament emerge under the second Donald Trump administration in the US.