Calling the US breaking off talks in Hanoi as ‘gangster-like’, fueling speculation that Kim might reconsider his halt on weapons tests
Trump has touted the end of such tests as one of his administration’s top foreign policy achievementsUS President Donald Trump with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un during their meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, February 27 2019. Picture: AFP/SAUL LOEB
“I want to make it clear that the gangster-like stand of the US will eventually put the situation in danger,” Choe said. “We have neither the intention to compromise with the US in any form nor much less the desire or plan to conduct this kind of negotiation.” The future of nuclear talks between the two sides has been in limbo since Trump decided to walk away from a February 28 meeting in Hanoi without an agreement to reduce Kim’s arsenal.
Even after the Hanoi summit collapsed, the US announced it would end two major annual military drills with South Korea, a move many analysts viewed as a concession to Kim. “This time we understood very clearly that the US has a very different calculation to ours,” Choe said, according to the AP. North Korea also called the US “gangster-like” after a fraught visit by Pompeo in July.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s office said in response to Choe’s comments that his government would support the re-opening of US-North Korean talks “under any circumstances”.
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