{"id":44133,"date":"2019-09-28T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T02:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44133"},"modified":"2019-09-28T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T02:11:59","slug":"dprk-official-regrets-lack-of-progress-in-talks-with-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44133","title":{"rendered":"DPRK Official Regrets Lack Of Progress In Talks With U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PYONGYANG, Sept 28 (NNN-KCNA) &#8211; A senior official of the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said, he was frustrated by the lack of progress in talks with the United States and continued demands for its unilateral disarmament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, DPRK Foreign Ministry adviser, Kim Kye Gwan said, the past DPRK-U.S. summit meetings and talks served as &#8220;historic occasions&#8221; for the top leaders of the two countries, to express their political will, to put an end to the hostile relations, but no practical follow-up was made to implement the issues agreed upon at the summit, casting a shadow over the possibility of future summit talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The DPRK made sincere efforts to build trust and implement the DPRK-U.S. joint statement,&#8221; he said, adding that, however, &#8220;the U.S. has done nothing for implementing the joint statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the contrary, the United States resumed joint military drills with South Korea and has ratcheted up sanctions and pressure on the DPRK, which will only make DPRK-U.S. relations degenerate, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the DPRK official said, he would continue to place hope in U.S. President, Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;bold decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I came to know that President Trump is different from his predecessors, in a political sense and decision, while watching his approach to the DPRK, so I would like to place my hope on President Trump&#8217;s wise option and bold decision,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working-level talks between the DPRK and the United States on the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula have stalled, since their failed Feb summit in Hanoi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DPRK&#8217;s First Vice Foreign Minister, Choe Son Hui said, Pyongyang was willing to have &#8220;comprehensive discussions&#8221; with the United States in late Sept, at a time and place agreed between both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said, his country has not been able to arrange working-level meetings with the DPRK in Sept, Washington was ready to meet and believes it is important to do so.&#8211; NNN-KCNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PYONGYANG, Sept 28 (NNN-KCNA) &#8211; A senior official of the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said, he was frustrated by the lack of progress in talks with the United States and continued demands for its unilateral disarmament. In a statement, DPRK Foreign Ministry adviser, Kim Kye Gwan said, the past DPRK-U.S. summit meetings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}