US President Donald Trump remains open to dialogue with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to achieve denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, The White House commented on a statement made on Tuesday by Kim Yo-jong, deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, regarding the impossibility of negotiations with the US on denuclearisation.
Kim Yo-jong said in her statement that “contacts between the DPRK and the US are nothing but Washington’s hope” and that Pyongyang would not hold talks if their goal was the denuclearisation of North Korea. Kim Yo-jong thus made it clear that the DPRK rules out the very possibility of discussing denuclearisation as a goal of the talks.
At the same time, she did not deny the existence of “good personal relations between the leaders of the two countries.”
She reminded that it is now 2025, not 2018 or 2019.
“Recognition of the irreversible status of our state as a nuclear weapon possessor, its capabilities and the clear fact that the geopolitical situation has changed radically must be a prerequisite for all further assumptions and reflections,” the North Korean leader’s sister noted.
Earlier, a White House representative told the Yonhap news agency that US President Donald Trump remains open to engagement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to achieve the denuclearisation of the DPRK.
Seoul supports the idea of a summit between the US and North Korea
The South Korean government continues to support a summit between North Korea and the US to ensure stability and peace on the Korean peninsula, Yonhap news agency reported, citing a representative of the South Korean Ministry of Unification.
“(We) actively support the resumption of summits between the North and the US in the interests of peace on the Korean Peninsula and stability in Northeast Asia,” the South Korean official said, commenting on the statement by the sister of the DPRK’s chairman of state affairs.
The leaders of North Korea and the US, Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump, met in Singapore and Hanoi in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
