Mild bluster
North Korean President Kim Jong-un has clarified that international sanctions must be lifted before Pyongyang gives up a single weapon, dismantles a single missile site, or stops producing nuclear material
North Korean President Kim Jong-un has clarified that international sanctions must be lifted before Pyongyang gives up a single weapon, dismantles a single missile site, or stops producing nuclear material
"There were no land mines found in our region and the North informed us that it has removed more than 600 land mines," Jeong said at a National Assembly session.
“The US thinks that its oft-repeated 'sanctions and pressure' leads to 'denuclearisation.' We cannot help laughing at such a foolish idea,” it said.
Since the June summit, Pyongyang has repeatedly demanded a permanent peace treaty with South Korea to replace the armistice that ended the Korean War in the 1950s.
The North and South Korea also announced measures to reduce conventional military threats, such as creating buffer zones along their land and sea boundaries and a no-fly zone above the border, removing 11 front-line guard posts by December, and demining sections of the Demilitarized Zone.
Kim Jong-un said he and Moon Jae-in agreed to remove all nuclear weapons and threats from the Korean Peninsula
This is the third summit this year between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the latter seeks to reboot stalled denuclearisation talks between North Korea and the United States
A day after Kim Jong-un’s pledge to end nuclear tests was greeted with a somewhat euphoric welcome by Donald Trump…