North Korea says that we must accept its status as a state of nuclear weapons | News

The powerful sister of the North Korean leader says that talks aimed at denuclearization would be interpreted as a “mockery”.

The influential sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong One called on the United States to accept the “irreversible” status of North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, warning that dialogue will never lead to its denuclearization.

In a statement published Tuesday by the Central Korean press agency led by the State, Kim Yo Jong said that recognition of Pyongyang and the geopolitical environment had “radically changed” should be a prerequisite for “everything in the future”.

“Any attempt to deny the position of the PRDC as a state of nuclear weapons, which has been established as well as the existence of a powerful nuclear deterrence and fixed by the supreme law reflecting the unanimous will of all the members of the RPDC, will be completely rejected,” said Kim, using the acronym of the official name of North Korea, the People’s Republic of Korea.

“RPDC is open to any option to defend its current national position.”

Kim Yo Jung, who oversees propaganda operations of the ruling workers’ party in Korea, said that it was “in no case beneficial” for the United States and North Korea to confrontation, and that Washington should “seek another means of contact on the basis of such a new thought”.

Kim also said that if the relationship between his brother and American president Donald Trump was “not bad”, any attempt to use their personal relationships to advance denuclearization would be interpreted as a “mockery”.

“If the United States does not accept modified reality and persist in the failed past, the RPDC-US meeting will remain as” hope “on the American side,” she said.

Kim’s comments are intervened after a name-named White House manager was cited by the Yonhap news agency in South Korea during the weekend, saying that Trump was open to engage with Kim Jong one to make a “fully denuclezed” North Korea.

His statement also one day comes after rejecting the efforts of South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung to repair the links with Pyongyang, including propaganda emissions interrupted on the Treed Intercorean border.

Since his return to the White House in January, Trump, who has held three vertices face to face with Kim Jong one in 2018 and 2019, has repeatedly expressed his interest in resuming dialogue with Pyongyang.

Last month, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump would like to rely on the “progress” made at its 2018 summit with the North Korean leader in Singapore.

While the Singapore summit marked a first historic meeting between an in -office president and the head of North Korea, Trump’s talks and subsequent meetings with Kim in Vietnam and the Inter -French border, failed to stop the advance of Pyongyang nuclear weapons programs.

Jenny Town, director of the Korea program of the Stimson Center of Washington, DC, said that Kim Yo Jong’s latest declaration was in accordance with recent messages from Pyongyang.

“This avoids directly appointing Trump, leaving room for a kind of diplomacy in the future to be always possible, but dissipates the idea that the talks of” denuclearization “can simply be picked up where they had stopped,” Town told Al Jazeera.

“Too much has changed since 2019, both in terms of the development of the ADM (weapons of mass destruction) of North Korea, the legal and political changes around its program and its nuclear status, and the broader geopolitical environment, for any notion of reproduction of discussions on the denuclearization to be convincing.”

“If negotiations are possible, the conditions of engagement have fundamentally changed,” added Town.

“It will not be denuclearization, but there may be room for talks under a different framing. However, if the United States is ready to take this jump must still be seen.”