North Korea: there are no roads for other negotiations with the US
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- Published: Friday, 15 March 2019 07:27
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Photo: PLPyongyang, Mar 15.- The United States lost a golden opportunity at the recent summit in Hanoi, and for now there are no roads to other negotiations, said Choe Son Hui, vice chancellor of North Korea.
The pronouncements were made before all the diplomatic corps accredited here and the foreign press with residence in this capital, summoned for a private hall of the metropolitan Great Cultural Palace of the People.
In that context, the first official revelations took place here of interiorities related to the second face to face between the president of the Korea State Committee, Kim Jong Un, and the US president, Donald Trump. Choe Son Hui, acknowledged that it is difficult to reconcile a text of peace between two countries technically involved in war for just over 70 years.
He announced that Kim Jong Un will make an intervention in the coming days on the theme of the Hanoi Summit with President Donald Trump.
He revealed that Kim told Trump that after 260 days of the Singapore agreement, he needed the maximum patience and effort to reach Vietnam and the United States appeared in Hanoi with nothing concrete, only in order to win political results for his country.
He said that the meetings at the end of last February in the Vietnamese capital exposed the true intentions of Washington in the Hanoi meeting, which were, he said, of marked political interest.
He said the US president agreed to include in the document that should have been signed on the 28th of last month the phrase "sanctions may be increased if the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) resumes nuclear activities."
However, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US National Security Advisor John Bolton did not agree and ruined what could have been the final document of that meeting.
Since then the leaders of the US, especially Bolton, speak very badly of the DPRK.
The Korean diplomat clarified that with respect to the lifting of sanctions, what was raised by Kim was the partial lifting of sanctions, that is, those that affected the people and the economy.
In that way, he denied President Trump, who told journalists in Hanoi that the maximum Korean delegation had requested the total lifting of the sanctions.
He recalled that each of the sanctions approved by the Security Council against Pyongyang clarifies that "according to the behavior of the DPRK, the sanctions could be reduced" and that phrase was not being fulfilled.
In response to a question from a Western ambassador, he said he has no say in whether his country would resume nuclear testing or is preparing for it.
He told those present that on the return trip Hanoi-Beijing-Pyongyang, the president of the Korean Labor Party assured him that it would not take more than a long train ride.
Choe Son Hui, in charge of relations with the United States. in the Foreign Ministry of North Korea, recalled that the previous June 12 in Singapore, his country raised concrete routes to solve the problems that hinder bilateral relations with Washington and the issue, obviously has not been resolved, or understood by the US counterpart. (PL)
