Unic Press UK: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has cautioned the United States on imposing sanctions that could be detrimental to measures being taken to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
In a statement carried Sunday by the KCNA news agency of North Korea, the policy research director of the Institute for American Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, said:
“Recently, the U.S. is resorting to anti-DPRK human rights plot in such a way that it carries deliberate provocation by adding high-ranking government officials of the DPRK, a sovereign state, to its unilateral sanctions list. . . Now, the international society is unanimous in welcoming the proactive denuclearization steps taken by the DPRK and urging the U.S. to respond to these steps in a corresponding manner. And president Trump avails himself of every possible occasion to state his willingness to improve DPRK-U.S. relations. Far from the statements of the president, the State Department is instead bent on bringing the DPRK-U.S. relations back to the status of last year which was marked by exchanges of fire. I cannot help but throw doubt on the ulterior motive of the State Department. If they are a sort of diplomats of “only superpower”, they should at least realize from the past record of the DPRK-U.S. relations that sanctions and pressure would not work against the DPRK.”
In the light of the views of the North Korean government in the past few months, especially the lack of trust among the parties, one is right to say that the apparent crack in the denuclearization process isn’t much of a surprise, notwithstanding that the United States President, Donald Trump and the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-Un held a historic Summit on June 12, 2018 on the island of Sentosa in Singapore, with Trump saying: “We’ve developed a very special bond.”
At the U.N. General Assembly in September, the North Korean foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho told the world leaders that the government and people of his country have yet to see a “corresponding response” from the U.S. to North Korea’s denuclearization measures. and that the U.S. sanctions are “deepening our mistrust”
At the ASEAN Regional Forum in August, top diplomat Ri Yong Ho also alleged that the U.S. has been undermining confidence in the process.
