North Korea: There is no need to sit down with the US to hold a face-to-face dialogue

North Korea: There is no need to hold face-to-face dialogue with the United States

　　Xinhua News Agency, Pyongyang, July 4 (Reporter Hong Kerun and Jiang Yaping) The first Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Korea Cui Shanji said on the 4th that the DPRK-US dialogue is only a tool for the US to deal with political crises, and North Korea does not need to sit with the US Hold face-to-face conversations.

　　The Korean Central News Agency quoted Cui Shanji's remark that day, and the recent "DPRK-US summit meeting" has become a hot topic that has attracted the attention of the international community. However, "The United States does not take the consensus reached in the previous summit talks into consideration and insists on pursuing a hostile policy toward the DPRK. Can we have a dialogue or deal with such a United States?"

　　According to South Korean media reports, South Korean President Wen Jae-yin said on June 30 that the South Korean side will go all out to strive for another face-to-face dialogue between the DPRK and the US before the US election.

　　Cui Shanji said that if the United States is not willing to readjust its hostile policy toward the DPRK, then the talks will have no results. She also said that North Korea has drawn up a more specific strategic plan against long-term threats from the United States, and North Korea’s policies will never change due to external factors such as the internal political agenda of other countries.

　　On June 12, 2018, North Korea’s top leader Kim Jong-un and US President Trump held their first DPRK-US summit meeting in Singapore and signed a joint statement on the denuclearization of the peninsula, etc., stating that the two countries will establish a new relationship and work together to build The mechanism of lasting stability and peace on the Korean Peninsula. However, the second summit meeting between the two sides held in Hanoi, Vietnam in February 2019 ended unsuccessfully, and the negotiations on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula came to an impasse.