North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed his willingness to engage in future discussions with the United States, provided Washington drops his demand for North Korea to leave his nuclear weapons, according to state media reports on Monday.
Kim also mentioned that he had “kind memories” at his meetings with US President Donald Trump, with whom he held three high -ranking summits during his first term Trump.
In Hanoi, however, in 2019 in Hanoi, in the end, due to disagreement on North Korea’s concessions, they were ready to offer.
“If the United States discards their deceitful obsession with denuclearization and, based on reality, they really want peaceful coexistence with us, then there is no reason why we cannot meet them,” Kim said, according to an official Korean Central Agency.
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The requirement of Kim to surrender his nuclear arsenal is a long -term point between the two countries, with Pyongyang under the subsequent rafts of the UN sanctions for its forbidden weapon programs.
Kim said the sanctions helped north only in “growing stronger, building perseverance and resistance that cannot be crushed by any pressure”.
“I still personally keep memories of the current US President Trump,” Kim added in an extensive speech with the Parliament of the Earth’s rubber stamp.
Since the unsuccessful summit in 2019, North Korea has repeatedly stated that she will never give up his nuclear weapons and declare himself a “irreversible” nuclear state.
Kim reiterated that denucleization was not a possibility.
“The world already knows what the United States is doing after it forces the country to give up its nuclear weapons and disarmament,” he said.
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“We never give up our nuclear weapons.”
Kim also said that there was no reason to sit down with South Korea, “although the new President of Seoul Lee Jae-myung tried to alleviate tension with the north.
“We will make it clear that we will not deal with them in any form,” he said.
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In recent years, North Korea has declared the south of its main enemy and has threw the railway connections and roads that connect both countries.
Analysts say that the North Korean leader was encouraged by the war in Ukraine and ensured critical support from Russia after sending thousands of North Korean troops to fight alongside Moscow.
North Korea has become one of the main Russian allies since Moscow attacked Ukraine three and a half years ago and sent thousands of soldiers and container many weapons to help the Kremlin to push the Ukrainian power out of Western Russia, after Kyiv’s shock last year.
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Last year, Moscow and Pyongyang signed an agreement on mutual defense in North Korea during a visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin in North Korea.
Seoul raised concerns about growing support from Russia for North Korea, especially in terms of possible transfer of sensitive Russian military technology.
Meanwhile, Trump is likely to visit South Korea next month, which coincides with the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), which will be held in the southern city of Gyeongju.
Kim Jong Un, which usually stays in North Korea, made a rare trip to the Russian Far East in 2023. Recently, Beijing has visited this month aboard an armored train.
During his journey, he stood alongside Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at an extensive show reminiscent of 80.
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