Geneva – North Korean Envoy Rejects Trump Overture To Meet Leader

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    A combination photo shows a Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) handout of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un released on May 10, 2016, and Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump posing for a photo after an interview with Reuters in his office in Trump Tower, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., May 17, 2016. REUTERS/KCNA handout via Reuters/File Photo & REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File PhotoGeneva – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is a “kind of propaganda or advertisement” in the election race, a senior North Korean official said on Monday.

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    Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with Reuters in New York last week, said he is willing to talk to the North Korean leader to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear program, proposing a major shift in U.S. policy toward the isolated nation.

    “It is up to the decision of my Supreme Leader whether he decides to meet or not, but I think his (Trump’s) idea or talk is nonsense,” So Se Pyong, North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said told Reuters on return from Pyongyang after attending the first ruling party congress in 36 years.

    “It’s for utilization of the presidential election, that’s all. A kind of a propaganda or advertisement,” he added. “This is useless, just a gesture for the presidential election.”

    North Korea conducted a fourth nuclear test in January and launched a long-range rocket in February, triggering tougher international sanctions.

    So, who is also North Korea’s ambassador to the U.N.-backed Conference on Disarmament, reiterated that his country was prepared to return to stalled six-party talks on its nuclear program. China and Russia backed the idea, but the United States and its allies South Korea and Japan reject it, he said.

    “As a responsible nuclear state … we never use them first,” So said. “If the United States use their nuclear weapons first, then we have to use also that one.”

    But he added: “As a responsible nuclear state, we keep and observe the obligations of non-proliferation of nuclear technology”.


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    yaakov doe
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    yaakov doe
    7 years ago

    The 2 men are similar in so many ways they would get along well.

    7 years ago

    watch Obama make a trip to North Korea before he leaves office and remove sanctions like he did to Terrorist Iran and Communist Vietnam

    hashomer
    hashomer
    7 years ago

    Even this North Korean yutz realizes Trump is a fool. A few weeks ago he called for giving Japan nuclear weapons to defend themselves against N. Korea. Trump goes both ways on everything.

    7 years ago

    Nixon called North Korea a fourth rate military power. It is incredible that after sixty six years, this rogue regime is still a thorn in the sides of the world.