North Korea's ruling party has written that it is unnecessary for the US to conduct joint military drills with South Korea when both countries are poised to come face to face on dialogue table in the near future.
North Korea's ruling party has written that it is unnecessary for the US to conduct joint military drills with South Korea when both countries are poised to come face to face on dialogue table in the near future.
An editorial in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun, the official publication of Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the country's ruling party, has said that the joint military wars between South Korea and US have been the root-cause of tension in the Korean peninsula and have brought the threats of nuclear war and their continued existence is unacceptable as "they are staged under the simulated conditions of a preemptive attack and total war against the DPRK without exception."
North Korea's ruling party says that the issue of joint military exercises between South Korea and US would be a touchstone on US acceptance of peace with North Korea.
The editorial has also targeted American policy makers for making unreasonable remarks that can vitiate the atmosphere of dialogue as "such provocative remarks are intolerable mockery of them."
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had earlier said that they would not go for a bad deal with North Korea over reports that North Korea would not give up its nuclear arsenal. Such fear from North Korea was repeated by many US officials and ultimately by US President Donald Trump.
The latest South Korea-US military drills began on 14 May. Taking the exercise seriously, North Korean state news agency KCNA on 16 May threaten to cancel the talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un that were scheduled for 12 June in Singapore.
Later on, the talks were cancelled by Trump over some hostile remarks from North Korea.
He released a letter on 24 May which said the meeting was requested by North Korea but based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in Kim's most recent statement, it was better to cancel the meeting as "Kim talked about nuclear capabilities, but US capacities were so massive and powerful that they will never have to be used." The same day North Korea destroyed its nuclear test site.
Trump called Kim to change his mind about the optics of the summit and come for a meeting in near future.
It seems Kim has changed his mind as, currently, top North Korean diplomats are in US to discuss over the June summit but that has not changed North Korea to change its mind over the joint South Korea-US military drills, this editorial in the country's official publication says, "If the US sincerely hopes for the talks, it should stop the acts of threatening its dialogue partner by force."
An editorial in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun, the official publication of Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the country's ruling party, has said that the joint military wars between South Korea and US have been the root-cause of tension in the Korean peninsula and have brought the threats of nuclear war and their continued existence is unacceptable as "they are staged under the simulated conditions of a preemptive attack and total war against the DPRK without exception."
North Korea's ruling party says that the issue of joint military exercises between South Korea and US would be a touchstone on US acceptance of peace with North Korea.
The editorial has also targeted American policy makers for making unreasonable remarks that can vitiate the atmosphere of dialogue as "such provocative remarks are intolerable mockery of them."
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had earlier said that they would not go for a bad deal with North Korea over reports that North Korea would not give up its nuclear arsenal. Such fear from North Korea was repeated by many US officials and ultimately by US President Donald Trump.
The latest South Korea-US military drills began on 14 May. Taking the exercise seriously, North Korean state news agency KCNA on 16 May threaten to cancel the talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un that were scheduled for 12 June in Singapore.
Later on, the talks were cancelled by Trump over some hostile remarks from North Korea.
He released a letter on 24 May which said the meeting was requested by North Korea but based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in Kim's most recent statement, it was better to cancel the meeting as "Kim talked about nuclear capabilities, but US capacities were so massive and powerful that they will never have to be used." The same day North Korea destroyed its nuclear test site.
Trump called Kim to change his mind about the optics of the summit and come for a meeting in near future.
It seems Kim has changed his mind as, currently, top North Korean diplomats are in US to discuss over the June summit but that has not changed North Korea to change its mind over the joint South Korea-US military drills, this editorial in the country's official publication says, "If the US sincerely hopes for the talks, it should stop the acts of threatening its dialogue partner by force."