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01 January 2020The world will soon see "a new strategic weapon". It is the threat with which North Korean leader Kim Jong-un opens 2020. Pyongyang, Kim says, will continue to develop such weapons if the United States does not change its line towards the Asian country. However, on the closing day of the summit of the party, Kim did not close the door to new negotiations with Washington.

Kim announces the end of the moratorium on nuclear and missiles
The North Korean leader announced the end of the moratorium on nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missiles and promised "shocking" action against the United States. "We have no reason to continue this commitment unilaterally," Kim Jong-un explained to the dignitaries of the ruling party. In 2018 Kim had declared that North Korea no longer needed nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile tests.

Trump confident
The announcement threatens to thwart diplomatic efforts over the past two years. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, had often said that Kim promised him that he would not do any tests. And he continues to be confident. "We signed a contract that talks about denuclearization. This was phase number one, it was done in Singapore. I think he's a man of speech," the American president told reporters, referring to the first historic summit between the two leaders, in Singapore in 2018. But nuclear negotiations were blocked by the failure of the Kim-Trump summit in Hanoi in February.

Kim's accusations against the USA
"The United States is raising demands contrary to the fundamental interests of our state and adopting bandit behavior," said Kim. Washington "conducted dozens of joint military exercises with South Korea that President Trump had personally promised to stop, sent military teams to the South and intensified sanctions against Pyongyang," he added. Kim then announced "shocking action to make the United States pay the price of the pain suffered by our people."

Pompeo: we want peace, not confrontation
Like Trump, the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, reacted in moderation. "We want peace, not confrontation," he told CBS. "We hope President Kim makes the right decision and chooses peace and prosperity instead of conflict and war," he told Fox News.