PYONGYANG, Nov 19 (NNN-KCNA) – An official of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said, Pyongyang was no longer interested in another DPRK-U.S. summit, that “brings nothing” to his country.
In a statement, Kim Kye Gwan, adviser to the DPRK’s Foreign Ministry, said, he learned that, U.S. President, Donald Trump, called for another DPRK-U.S. summit.
Trump addressed DPRK top leader, Kim Jong Un, saying, “I am the only one who can get you where you have to be. You should act quickly, get the deal done. See you soon!”
However, Kim Kye Gwan said, three rounds of DPRK-U.S. summit meetings and talks, since June last year, brought no improvement in the DPRK-U.S. relations.
“The United States only seeks to earn time, pretending it has made progress in settling the issue of the Korean Peninsula,” he said.
The adviser stressed that, as DPRK got nothing in return, “we will no longer give the U.S. president something he can boast of.”
“If the U.S. truly wants to keep the dialogue, it had better make a bold decision, to drop its hostile policy towards the DPRK,” he said in his statement.
In a related development, South Korea and the United States announced that, they would put off their combined military air exercise, scheduled for later this month, in an effort to bolster dialogue with the DPRK.
Pyongyang criticised the military drill as hostile to the DPRK, which would do no good to the new round of talks, on the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.– NNN-KCNA