Vice Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un, warned the United States against engaging in talks surrounding denuclearization.
“Shortly ago, a person in authority of the White House said that the president stabilized the situation on the Korean peninsula and reached the first top-level agreement on denuclearization through the three DPRK-U.S. summit meetings during his first term of office and that he is still open to dialogue with the DPRK leader for achieving the complete denuclearization of the DPRK,” Kim said in a statement. “We do not want to give any meaning to the U.S. side’s unilateral assessment of the past DPRK-U.S. dialogue.”
She stated that the year 2025 is “neither 2018 nor 2019,” adding that the “recognition of the irreversible position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state and the hard fact that its capabilities and geopolitical environment have radically changed should be a prerequisite for predicting and thinking everything in the future.”
Kim further warned that an attempt to “deny the position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state,” which she said was “established along with the existence of a powerful nuclear deterrent and fixed by the supreme law reflecting the unanimous will of all the DPRK people,” is a move that “will be thoroughly rejected.”
“The DPRK is open to any option in defending its present national position,” she noted, going on to declare that she does not want to “deny the fact that the personal relationship between the head of our state and the present U.S. president is not bad.”
Should discussions between the nations “serve the purpose of denuclearization,” she stated, “it can be interpreted as nothing but a mockery of the other party.”
In February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul at the Munich Security Conference, where he “reaffirmed America’s commitment to the complete denuclearization of the DPRK while expressing the Trump administration’s openness to dialogue,” spokesperson Tammy Bruce said at the time.
