North Korea said that the relationship between its leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump remains “not bad”, but warned Washington of attempting to use denucleation.
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In a statement in the official Korean Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday, Kim Yo Jong – Sister of Leader Kim – said that the US should begin to recognize “radically altered” abilities in the north and that Pyongyang is open to “any possibilities” to prevent its national interest, Bloomberg informed.
“I do not want to deny the fact that the personal relationship between the head of our state and the current US president is not bad,” she said. However, Kim added: “It is worth taking into account the fact that the year 2025 is neither 2018 nor 2019.”
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She refused the US intention to restore diplomacy to North Korea’s denucleization and said that on Tuesday in the north of the flat against any attempt to deny his position as the state of nuclear weapons.
If it is used for this purpose, “it can be interpreted as nothing but a mockery of the other party,” she said, calling on the United States to recognize the North as “state of nuclear weapons”.
Trump’s attempt to fix relations with North Korea
During the first term of Trump as a US president, he met three times with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but the interviews could not convince Kim to stop progress in her nuclear weapons program. Since then, North Korea has rejected another dialogue with the United States and has closely associated with Russian President Vladimir Putin and supported her war in Ukraine.
Since the opening of his second term in January, Trump has often emphasized his personal relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and expressed interest in reviving nuclear interviews.
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However, their earlier diplomatic efforts in 2018–2019 have disintegrated due to non -defense disagreements. Since then, Kim has conducted a number of provocative weapons tests focused on the modernization and expansion of the nuclear arsenal of North Korea.
North Korea’s attitude
“Any attempt to reject the position of DPRK as a state of nuclear weapons, which was established along with the existence of a powerful nuclear discouraging agent and stipulated by the highest law reflecting the unanimous will of all people DPRK, will be thoroughly rejected,” she said with her official name, Democratic People’s Republic.
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She said she responded to the reported comments of the US official that Trump was still open to conversations with Kim Jong Un to complete denucleization in the north. She probably referred to the Saturday article from the Yonhap press agency, who quoted an unidentified White House official, claiming that Trump “remains open cooperation with leader Kim to achieve fully denucleared North Korea”.
“If the US does not accept the changed reality and persists in the unsuccessful past, the DPRK-US meeting will remain as the hope of the” American party, “Kim Yo Jong said, as stated by AP.
Her comments suggest that complete denuclearization will not be on negotiations. Experts have previously said that North Korea will only be interested in partial surrendering to their nuclear abilities in return for helping sanctions and other benefits, which is a tactic that could allow North Korea to leave some of its key nuclear weapons after getting what the US wants from the US
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Trump-KIM interviews eventually collapsed after President Trump refused the offer of Kim Jong Un, to dismantle his main nuclear complex in exchange for relief from the wide sanctions-tug, which the US considered to be insufficient to the full nuclear people.
Any attempt to reject the position of DPRK as a state of nuclear weapons … will be thoroughly rejected.
On Monday, Kim Yo Jong, sister Kim Jong Un, rejected the efforts of the new liberal government of South Korea and criticized her “blind confidence” in the American alliance and continued hostility north. Her remarks suggest that Pyongyang, now focused on deepening the custody with Russia, is of little interest in restoring interviews with Soul. Analysts believe that they can also try to weaken the alliance between South Korea and the United States, and reported.
(With the entry from agencies)
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