Thread by @BonicMichael

Kim Yo-jong responds to Moon Jae-in's criticisms of North Korea's ballistic missile launches last week, saying Moon’s “illogical and brazen-faced” comments echoed the US stance.
North Korea calls president Moon ‘a parrot raised by America’ in new salvo scmp.com/news/asia/east…

2/Moon Jae-in "termed Seoul's growing missile capabilities as a “sure deterrence" against provocations from Pyongyang [when] commenting on Seoul's defence capabilities after Seoul's first successful test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile.”
hindustantimes.com/world-news/irk…

3/Kim Yo Jong is reacting against the illogicality of Moon's statement that stems from mislabeling Pyongyang’s recent launching of a “tactical” cruise missile followed by two missiles/projectiles as “provocations”, a term which belies ignorance or willful unacceptable of the fact

4/that these were strictly defense drills designed to maintain war readiness following:
South Korea Launches First Ballistic Missile From Submarine
(on Sept 6)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Your rival conducts decapitation strike exercises w/ US followed by its first SLBM launch. You

5/react (DPRK i.e.): "We must show them our capability to deter them'. But then they think: “Why are they making “provocations”? We’re the good guys. They’re the bad guys. We get to show them what we have to deter them but they’re not supposed to. They are clearly making

6/provocations. So me must again show them our capabilities in order to deter them from threatening us by their provocations.”
This thinking is clearly NOT based in logical reasoning, but it's the essence of what Moon, US & Western allies think. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong.)

7/Maybe it's b/c Moon Jai-in was born January 24, 1953, in the Year of the Water Dragon (January 27, 1952 – February 13, 1953). Aquarians aren't known for abiding by logic, they are creative & unique & defy categorization. Kim Jong Un is a Capricorn Year of the Rat where

8/pragmatism, building a solid material foundation from the ground up and respecting the rules of logic are the name of the game. So when Moon is suddenly flexing ROK's muscle claiming it's being done as a deterrent against DPRK's provocations, it's likely the Aquarius Dragon

9/(Moon) w/ a penchant for flair just typically misread DPRK's defense drill war deterrent launches made by cold calculations. Yet Moon's action grabs the headlines and gives a narrative already false in substance greater momentum, so Kim Yo Jong's response is justified and apt.