By EFE
23 Jul 2024, 13:29 PM EDT
North Korea said in an editorial that it does not care who wins the upcoming US election and hinted it will not negotiate with Washington under any circumstances, just days after Donald Trump suggested he would seek talks with Kim Jong-un if he wins.
The text published by the state news agency KCNA claims that Trump displayed “a persistent desire for relations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States” during a recent speech delivered at the Republican convention in Milwaukee.
“Even if any administration takes power in the United States, the political climate, which is marked by the fights between the two parties, will not change and therefore, we do not care (about the result),” the editorial states.
“It is true that Trump, when he was president, tried to bring out the special personal relations between heads of state in bilateral relations, but he did not achieve any substantial positive change,” the statement said, adding that “it is necessary to strictly distinguish between a state’s foreign policy and personal feelings.”
After launching denuclearisation talks with North Korea during his first term, Trump called off a summit in Hanoi in 2019 after deeming Pyongyang’s disarmament offer insufficient, a move many experts say seriously damaged Washington’s credibility with the regime.
Since then, the reclusive Asian country has turned its back on new offers of dialogue and has greatly strengthened its relationship with Russia.
The North Korean editorial, which took the opportunity to criticize the deployment of American F-18 fighters in South Korea for joint maneuvers that begin on Tuesday, generally condemns the American swings in policy due to the changes in administration and speaks of a lack of “reliability” when it comes to fulfilling agreements.
As an example of this, the text brings up the so-called “Framework Agreement” of 1994, by which an international consortium led by the United States, South Korea and Japan agreed to build light water reactors in North Korea in exchange for the regime freezing its conventional atomic program before the pact was scrapped during the George W. Bush administration.
“Looking at the entire course of the dialogue between the DPRK and the US, the international community has already come to the conclusion that the US is a perfidious country that does not keep its promises,” the editorial said, concluding that “due to the serious strategic mistakes of successive administrations, the era has arrived when the US should really care about its security.”
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