The sister of North Korea’s leader has said Pyongyang is willing to think about another inter-Korean summit if mutual “respect” and “impartiality” between the 2 countries are often guaranteed She had urged Seoul on Friday to finish its “hostile policies” towards Pyongyang after South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in involved declaring a politician end to the state of war with the North.
The 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace , leaving the United States-led forces technically still at war with North Korea Pyongyang for many years has sought an end to the war but the US has been reluctant to agree unless North Korea gives up its nuclear weapons.
“I think that only impartiality and therefore the attitude of respecting one another are maintained, can there be smooth understanding between the north and therefore the south,” Kim Yo Jong was quoted as saying by the state press agency KCNA She also said a summit, also as discussions on a declaration to finish the war, might be held “at an early date through constructive discussions”.
She went on to reiterate Friday’s involve Seoul to drop its “unequal double-standards”, in a clear regard to Moon’s criticism of the North’s recent missile launches Last week, South Korea successfully test-fired a submarine-launched missile (SLBM), making it one among a couple of countries with advanced technology North Korea administered two missile firings this month alone, one involving a long-range aircraft and therefore the other a short-range missile .
Communications between the North and therefore the South have largely been cut within the aftermath of a second US-North Korea summit in Hanoi that collapsed in February 2019 as then-US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un couldn’t agree on the terms of an agreement Kim Yo Jong, who may be a powerful confidante of her brother, said she noted with interest the extreme discussion in South Korea over the renewed prospect of a proper declaration of the top of the Korean War “I felt that the atmosphere of the South Korean public meaning to recover the inter-Korean relations from a deadlock and achieve peaceful stability as soon as possible is irresistibly strong,” she said.
North Korea’s offer to interact in talks with South Korea comes after it rejected several overtures for dialogue by the US. President Joe Biden said in his UN address last week that he wanted “sustained diplomacy” to resolve the crisis surrounding North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes The head of the UN atomic watchdog said last week that North Korea’s nuclear programme was going “full steam ahead”.