An envoy for North Korea on Monday dismissed Donald Trump’s recent comment that he would be willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to discuss nuclear weapons.
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“It is up to the decision of my Supreme Leader whether he decides to meet or not, but I think his [Trump’s] idea or talk is nonsense”, he said.
“It’s for utilisation of the presidential election, that’s all”, he added. “A kind of a propaganda or advertisement”.
The country has tested a number of nuclear tests and in March of this year said it had been able to create a warhead small enough to fit on ballistic missiles.
Kim Jong-un intends on meeting around thirty candidates during the competition after which he will shortlist possible suitors and further eliminate, until he finds the right one for his sister.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) applauds during a photo session with the soldier-builders who performed labor feats in building the Wonsan Baby Home and Orphanage in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang June 3, 2015.
The North’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said Wednesday that Pyongyang has again made an offer of inter-Korean dialogue – as it has done for six consecutive days. China has no intrinsic incentive to want an unstable state possessing nuclear weapons as its immediate neighbor.
Following Mr Trump’s offer, an aide to Democrat Hillary Clinton criticised his foreign policy as making “no sense for the rest of us”.
Trump’s comments signal a change in the way the USA deals with the hermit kingdom, as it now has no diplomatic relations with North Korea and only engages with it via a Swedish embassy when necessary.
The U.S. was a key player in demanding tougher United Nations sanctions against North Korea this year, and is regularly targeted by the authoritarian state’s aggressive rhetoric due to its military presence in South Korea.
Cuba was one of the world’s communist states to congratulate North Korea on its first Workers’ Party congress in almost four decades earlier this month.
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Until Pyongyang makes the first move on denuclearization, the current US administration has decided not to engage in direct bilateral talks and continues to enforce sanctions, adopting a policy that has been described as “strategic patience”.
