Economics
North Korea Says Won’t Trade Nuclear Weapons for Sanctions Lift
- Trump-Kim ties ‘not bad,’ but won’t help resume talks: KCNA
- Foreign Ministry adviser says Washington must accept demands
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North Korea won’t rely on the personal relationship between its leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump as it doesn’t intend to trade its nuclear weapons for a lift of sanctions, its state-run media said, citing a Foreign Ministry adviser.
“There will never be such negotiations as that in Vietnam, in which we proposed exchanging a core nuclear facility of the country for the lift of some United Nations sanctions,” Kim Kye Gwan was quoted as saying by the Korean Central News Agency. “There is no need for us to be present in such talks, in which there is only unilateral pressure, and we have no desire to barter something for other thing at the talks like traders.”