Kim-Trump friendship is pointless, North Korea says two years after summit in Singapore
- Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon said the past two years of diplomacy has revealed the US is continuing to seek ‘regime change’ in Pyongyang
- ‘Nothing is more hypocritical than an empty promise,’ Ri said in a statement carried by state media
North Korea issues veiled threat to US elections over meddling
“The question is whether there will be a need to keep holding hands shaken in Singapore, as we see that there is nothing of factual improvement to be made in the DPRK-US relations simply by maintaining personal relations between our supreme leadership and the US President,” Ri said in a statement carried by state media, referring to North Korea by its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“Never again will we provide the US chief executive with another package to be used for (political) achievements without receiving any returns,” Ri said. “Nothing is more hypocritical than an empty promise.”
North Korea axes dialogue with South over anti-Kim balloons
Ri said the past two years of diplomacy has only revealed that the US the continues to pursue “regime change” in Pyongyang and threatens the North with the prospects of a pre-emptive nuclear strike and “isolation and suffocation”.
“The secure strategic goal of the DPRK is to build up more reliable force to cope with the long-term military threats from the US,” he said.
North Korea has suspended virtually all cooperation with South Korea in recent months while pressuring Seoul to defy US-led international sanctions and restart inter-Korean economic projects that would breathe life into the North’s struggling economy.
It also has threatened to end an inter-Korean military agreement reached in 2018 while expressing anger over South Korea’s inability to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.