North Korea has renewed threat to cancel the much-awaited meeting between its leader Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump, after the US President said, the fate of the talks will be decided next week.
In a statement released by state-run KCNA news agency, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son Hui said, Pyongyang will neither beg Washington for a dialogue nor take the trouble to persuade them if they do not want to sit together for talks. She said, she would recommend Kim to cancel the talks if US continues to make such threats. Ms Choe also called US Vice-President Mike Pence as ignorant for his warnings over the Kim-Trump summit.
Mr Pence had, earlier, warned Kim Jong Un that it would be a great mistake to try and play Trump. He also said, if Kim doesn’t make a deal, North Korea could end up like Libya, whose former leader Moamer Khadafi was killed by US-backed rebels years after giving up atomic weapons.
Mr Trump and Mr Kim are due to meet in Singapore on the 12th of next month for talks aimed at ridding the reclusive state of its newly acquired nuclear weapons and improving ties after decades of animosity. But the meeting’s potential success has been thrown into doubt in recent days with both Washington and Pyongyang raising the prospect of cancelling the talks and trading threats.
After talks with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in at the White House, Mr Trump had recently said, his meeting with Kim may not work out. He, however, asserted that the North Korean leader was serious about denuclearisation.
Source: AIR