US hopes that the DPRK will soon respond to the offer of Washington on the resumption of dialogue. This was stated by the US Special Representative for North Korea Son Kim, reports TASS.
Son Kim recalled the recent statement of the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong about the fact that Pyongyang should be ready both to dialogue and confrontation with the United States. “We will be ready for one, and to another [scenario], since I still expect the answer from Pyongyang to our proposals on the negotiations,” said American diplomat.
Son Kim confirmed the US commitment to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through diplomacy, and also made the development of intercorean dialogue, cooperation and rapprochement.
In March, the US State Department representative Jalina Porter spoke about several unsuccessful attempts to the American authorities to contact North Korea. Porter noted that the United States tried to contact the DPRK on several channels.
Since 2018, the United States and the DPRK are negotiating the denuclearization of North Korea. US President Donald Trump declared that it was ready to remove sanctions from the republic in case of agreement on this issue. However, the last negotiations in October 2019 failed, which were announced in Pyongyang, but denied in the United States. In December 2020, the DPRK reported that they did not need further dialogue with the United States on the issue of denuclearization: Pyongyang refuses to reduce the reserves of nuclear weapons unilaterally.