The South Korean authorities have expressed readiness to facilitate the dialogue between the US and DPRK, despite Pyongyang’s warning that he sees no need for US-North Korean talks.
“The position of the government (of South Korea) remains unchanged in its efforts to speed up the North Korean-American dialogue aimed at denuclearization and building a lasting peace on the Korean peninsula”, – Yonhap agency quotes a statement by a representative of the South Korean Ministry of National Unification.
Two days ago, the Korean Central Telegraph Agency transmitted from Pyongyang a statement by First Deputy Foreign Minister of DPRK Tsoi Song Hee that DPRK does not need to have a dialogue with the US, which is used by the Americans to solve domestic political problems.
Since 2018, three summit meetings have been held between the leaders of the DPRK and the US, Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump, but no progress has been made neither in denuclearization nor in ending the formal state of war between the two countries. This also led to the termination of DPRK’s cooperation and contacts with South Korea, which were to develop in parallel with the establishment of North Korean-American relations.
Negotiations with the US are pointless, the DPRK Foreign Ministry said.
After the Korean War of 1950-1953, only an armistice agreement was signed between the U.S. troops fighting under the UN flag and the DPRK, and all subsequent attempts by Pyongyang to achieve a peace treaty were unsuccessful. The development of North Korea’s own nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles did not help solve the problem, although Trump promised Kim Jong-un that the state of war would end.