North Korea says it is no longer necessary to hold face-to-face dialogue with the United States

　　China News Agency, Beijing, July 4th Level News: North Korea’s First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Cui Shanji said in a statement on the 4th that the DPRK-US dialogue is only a tool for the United States to deal with political crises, and North Korea does not need to sit down with the US side for face-to-face dialogue .

　　According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency, Cui Shanji said in his talk that the recent "North Korea-US Summit" 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?"

　　Earlier, there was news from the outside world that US President Trump might throw a "October surprise" on the eve of the November elections, but Cui Shanji said in his conversation that North Korea is "not interested" in this kind of DPRK-US summit.

　　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.

　　In February 2019, the second summit meeting between North Korea’s highest leader Kim Jong Un and US President Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam, ended in vain, and the denuclearization talks on the Korean peninsula came to an impasse. In January this year, Kim Kye-gwan, an adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Korea, stated that unless the United States agreed to all the requests made by North Korea, North Korea would no longer participate in the DPRK-US negotiations.

　　On the 30th of last month, South Korean President Wen Jae-yin said 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. (Finish)