Yeol 'idiot' says Kim

THE sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has directed a string of insults towards South Korea for considering new unilateral sanctions against the North, calling its president and his government "idiots" and "a running wild dog gnawing on a bone given by the US"!

Kim Yo Jong's diatribe came two days after South Korea's foreign ministry said it was considering additional sanctions on North Korea over its recent barrage of missile tests.

The ministry said it would also consider taking action against alleged cyber attacks by North Korea believed to be a key new source of funding for its weapons programme - if the North conducts a major provocation like a nuclear test.

"I wonder what 'sanctions' the South Korean group, no more than a running wild dog gnawing on a bone given by the US, impudently will impose on North Korea," Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media.

"What a spectacle!"