North Korea launched a new charge against the United States on Sunday (October 6th) accusing it of pursuing a "hostile" policy. Pyongyang also rejected any nuclear dialogue until Washington changed its "attitude".
Pyongyang has "no interest in holding negotiations as disgusting as they are until the United States takes concrete action to end its hostile policies," a spokesman said. of North Korean diplomacy, quoted by the official KCNA agency.
"The fate of the US-North Korea dialogue is in the hands of Washington and the deadline is the end of the year," he added.
The day before, in Stockholm, a first attempt at dialogue between the American and North Korean representatives had failed. North Korean envoy Kim Myong-gil blamed the failure of the talks in the United States, saying the talks did not bring "nothing to the table".
Conversely, Washington said the talks had been "good", saying it was ready to continue and saying it had accepted an invitation by the Swedes to resume negotiations in two weeks.
The hypothesis of a new meeting is "unfounded", said Sunday a spokesman North Korea.
Stalled dialogue
The dialogue between the two countries has stalled since the failure of the Hanoi summit in February between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. In addition, Pyongyang has stepped up short-range missile tests in recent months, the latest one from last Wednesday.
Donald Trump has made the resumption of nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang an axis of his foreign policy and met Kim Jong-un three times. The first summit, which marked a spectacular rapprochement between the two enemy countries, was held in June 2018 in Singapore. But despite the historical aspect of the meeting, it had not given rise to specific commitments to denuclearization, and was never followed by concrete progress.
The second meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February 2019, ended in failure, including the question of lifting the sanctions demanded by the East Asian regime.
The two men met again last June in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the end of the war (1950-53). Donald Trump became the first American president to walk on North Korean soil.
With AFP