Pyongyang, June 5: North Korea has urged the United States to adopt the “correct strategic choice” to resume stalled denuclearization talks, warning that patience has a limit, state-run media said on Tuesday.
Four months after the stalled talks between US President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam, Pyongyang has renewed its urged for dialogues with Washington. The Hanoi summit has failed abruptly due to a large difference between the two leaders as Kim stressed for sanction relief and Trump focused over Kim’s last year promise of complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) has quoted an official statement, in which North Korean foreign ministry spokesperson urged Washington to “drop its current way of calculation” in order to keep negotiations alive which Trump and Kim have reached in their first historic summit last June.
The spokesperson was quoted by Yonhap news agency as saying, “Whether the June 12 DPRK-US Joint Statement will remain effective or turn out to be a mere blank sheet of paper will now be determined by how the US would respond to our fair and reasonable stand.”
It further added, “The US should duly look back on the part one year and cogitate about which will be a correct strategic choice before it is too late. The US would be well-advised to change its current method of calculation and respond to our request as soon as possible.”
In April, a similar call was made during which Kim had stated he would be waiting for the US’ “courageous decision” until 2019 end.