North Korea leader’s sister denies talks with ‘hostile’ US
Kim Yo Jong said she was unaware of any talks between her brother and US President Donald Trump The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has denied any ongoing communication between US President Donald Trump and her brother, maintaining that the US continues to engage in a “hostile” policy towards her country. “Regarding the recent news from Washington about communication between the leaders of North Korea and the United States, I am completely unaware of it, and it is likely the only matter concerning our top leadership’s foreign policy that I am unaware of,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: On Sunday, Trump ordered the Pentagon to significantly scale back joint military exercises with South Korea, which hosts around 28,500 US troops, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice but no definite conclusion to the conflict.
- Fact 2: On Monday, Trump said he had convinced South Korea to pay $3bn a year during his first term as president, and was planning to increase that amount.
- Fact 3: “Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his,” Trump wrote in 2018.
- Fact 4: They met again in 2019, including in a dramatic encounter at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), where Trump became the first US president to cross into North Korea.
Kim Yo Jong said she was unaware of any talks between her brother and US President Donald Trump The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has denied any ongoing communication between US President Donald Trump and her brother, maintaining that the US continues to engage in a “hostile” policy towards her country. “Regarding the recent news from Washington about communication between the leaders of North Korea and the United States, I am completely unaware of it, and it is likely the only matter concerning our top leadership’s foreign policy that I am unaware of,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday.
Trump says talking to North Korea’s Kim makes the south safer South Korea, US scale back annual military drills after Trump’s order ‘Tit for tat’: Why is Trump cosying up to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un again? Later on Wednesday, Trump said he gets along well with Kim and was planning to meet the North Korean leader. Trump on Monday told reporters he had been in touch with Kim, and the leader had been “very positive” in responding to his proposal for talks.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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