Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister, Kim Jong Un, has warned that dialogue will never result in its denuclearization. She has urged the United States to accept North Korea’s “irreversible” status as a nuclear weapons state.
Kim Yo Jong said acknowledging that “everything in the future” must be a prerequisite for “everything in the future” in a statement released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday.
Kim said, “Any attempt to refute the position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state, which was established along with the existence of a potent nuclear deterrent and fixed by the supreme law reflecting the unanimous will of all the DPRK people, will be vehemently rejected” using the abbreviation for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is its official name.
The DPRK has the right to defend its current national position at any cost.
According to Kim Yo Jung, who directs the Workers’ Party of Korea’s propaganda efforts, a conflict between the US and North Korea would be “no means beneficial” and Washington should “seek another way of contact based on such new thinking.”
Kim added that any attempt to use her brother’s personal relationships to advance denuclearization would be interpreted as “mockery,” even though her brother’s relationship with US President Donald Trump was “not bad”.
The DPRK-US meeting will continue to serve as the US side’s “hope” if the US accepts the new reality and persists in the failed past, she said.
Kim’s comments come after a White House official who was unnamed was cited over the weekend by South Korean publication Yonhap News as saying that Trump was willing to work with Kim Jong Un to “fully denuclearize” North Korea.
She also comes a day after she criticizes Lee Jae-myung, the president of South Korea, for his efforts to bolster ties with Pyongyang, including forbidding propaganda broadcasts along the tense inter-Korean border.
Trump, who has met with Kim Jong Un three times in the past two years, has repeatedly expressed interest in restarting the dialogue with Pyongyang since returning to the White House in January.
Trump’s plans to expand on the “progress” made during his 2018 summit with the North Korean leader in Singapore were revealed last month by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The talks, along with Trump’s subsequent encounters with Kim in Vietnam and at the inter-Korean border, failed to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programs, even though the Singapore summit marked a historic first-ever meeting between a sitting US president and the leader of North Korea.
Kim Yo Jong’s most recent statement, according to Jenny Town, program director for the Korea program at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, is in line with recent Pyongyang messages.
It “eliminates naming Trump directly, leaving room for some kind of diplomacy in the future,” Town told Al Jazeera, “but dispels the notion that “denuclearization” talks can simply be picked up where they left off.”
There has been too much change since 2019, both in terms of North Korea’s development of WMD [weapons of mass destruction], the legal and policy changes surrounding its nuclear programme and status, and the wider geopolitical environment, for any suggestion of resuming discussions about denuclearization to be compelling.
The terms of engagement have fundamentally changed, Town continued.
Source: Aljazeera
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