The historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is likely to skip due to a joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea, which began last Friday. North Korea questioned an appointment scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, which blew up a high-level meeting with Seoul officials at the last minute on Wednesday May 16.
North Korea will hold top-level negotiations with the United States only if US President Donald Trump is interested not only in resolving the nuclear issue, but also in improving relations with Pyongyang, these are the words spoken by the Deputy Foreign Minister. North Korean Kim Kye-gwan. "We will no longer be interested in the talks - he said as reported by the Yonhap news agency - if they only tried to unilaterally push us into a corner and force us to give up nuclear bombs: it would be inevitable to reconsider if we respond to the next summit with the United States. ".
The North Korean diplomat urged Washington to start talks with Pyongyang with genuine interest in improving bilateral relations to get a positive response from North Korea. The talks between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un are scheduled for the June 12 in Singapore.
Pyongyang's sudden change of position on the Trump-Kim summit was the subject of discussion, today morning, between the foreign minister of Seoul, Kang Kyung-hwa, and the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, who had a telephone interview.
According to reports from the South Korean news agency Yonhap, Pompeo confirmed the US intention to continue preparing for the summit, as already announced by his spokesperson, Heather Nauert, while Kang reiterated Seoul's "firm resolve" to put the agreements reached with the North during the inter-Korean summit on 27 April between the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, and Kim himself, aimed at permanent peace and the "complete denuclearization" of the Korean peninsula, are in progress.