North Korea Ignores Trump’s Overtures

North Korea continues to give the United States the cold shoulder, despite the apparent will of President Donald Trump to regain dialogue with the supreme chief of the country, Kim Jong Un.

The state media called Washington as “hostile strength” after Trump expressed his confidence in his ability to put an end to a potential conflict on the Korean peninsula.

Why it matters

Trump claims to have a considerable lever effect on Kim, citing their correspondence during his first mandate. During this period, he also met Kim face to face in a failed effort to encourage the North Korean leader to reduce the nuclear weapons program sanctioned by the United Nations of his regime, which, according to Pyongyang, is necessary to dissuade aggression by the United States and its South Korean ally.

The downside talks have sent bilateral links in a cold, North Korea moving to consecrate its nuclear weapon capacity in its constitution and regain its launches of ballistic missiles and its bellicose rhetoric which raised tensions with the South.

Nowsweek Contacted the North Korean Embassy in China by e-mail with a request for comments.

What to know

Rodong SinmunThe official spokesperson for the North Korea party, targeted the United States – without mentioning it by name – in an editorial published on Sunday.

“The hostile forces have hung on for more than 10 years to sanctions and unprecedented blockages to try to make us abandon the path of autonomy,” said the article.

He then praised the continuous determination of North Korea to resist “imperialists”, saying that their conceptions can only be countered “storing a strong power to defend the sovereignty and security of the country”.

The article was published only two days after Trump praised his “good relationship” with Kim, but did not confirm or deny that he had contacted the strong North Korean man.

Trump also expressed his confidence that he could resolve any conflict that could break out between Pyongyang and Seoul. Because the hostilities of the Korean War ended with an armistice rather than an official peace treaty, the neighbors remain technically in a state of war.

Earlier this month, the NK News store focused on North Korea reported that Trump had written a letter to Kim, seeking to open the door to a renewed dialogue.

According to an “high -level light source” cited by the point of sale, attempts in person to hand over the letter were postponed by the staff of the North Korea’s UN office.

What is the next step

The conditions under which Kim would agree on the return to the negotiating table remains uncertain, but it is unlikely that analysts largely contain North Korea accept any agreement which requires complete denuclearization.

Meanwhile, Russia war in Ukraine and increased tensions in the Middle East following the war between Iran and Israel should prevent North Korea from the List of Immediate House priorities.

What people said

Trump told journalists in the oval office on Friday: “If there is a conflict, I get along very well with him. And we will resolve the conflict.

“I had a good relationship with Kim Jong a […] But someone says if there is a potential conflict – I think we will solve it, and if there is, that would not imply. “”

Andrei Lankov, visiting researcher for the reflection group of the Sejong Institute based in Seoulwrote in a June analysis: “In current circumstances, compared to 2019, North Korea is much less pressure to initiate negotiations with the United States.

“This could mean that the North Korean team will not start where talks ended in 2019, and will take a few steps back, removing some of their 2019 proposals which could be considered excessively generous […] This could mean that the American delegation should accept the conditions it rejected in Hanoi in 2019 or accept the collapse of talks. “”