North Korea said on Sunday its intention to denuclearise, unveiled at a historic inter-Korean summit, was not the result of US-led sanctions and pressure, warning the United States not to mislead public opinion.<\/p>\n
Impoverished North Korea has been hit by a series of UN and US sanctions in recent years in a bid to rein in its nuclear and missile programmes.<\/p>\n
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed \u201ccomplete denuclearisation\u201d of the Korean peninsula in the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade on April 27, but the declaration did not include concrete steps to reach that goal.<\/p>\n
The North\u2019s official KCNA news agency said Washington was \u201cmisleading public opinion\u201d by claiming the denuclearisation pledge was the result of sanctions and other pressure.<\/p>\n
The United States should not \u201cdeliberately provoke\u201d the North by moving to deploy strategic assets in South Korea and raising human rights issues, KCNA said, citing a foreign ministry spokesman.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis act cannot be construed otherwise than a dangerous attempt to ruin the hardly-won atmosphere of dialogue and bring the situation back to square one,\u201d the spokesman was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
It would not be conducive to resolving the issue of denuclearisation if Washington miscalculated North Korea\u2019s \u201cpeace-loving intention\u201d as a sign of weakness and continued to pursue its pressure and military threats, KCNA said.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump, who plans to meet Kim over the next few weeks, has said he will maintain sanctions and pressure on the North and \u201cnot repeat the mistakes of past administrations\u201d and has said his tough stance had led to the breakthrough.<\/p>\n
Trump told the National Rifle Association\u2019s annual convention in Dallas on Friday that he had toned down his rhetoric in anticipation of the talks after labelling Kim \u201cLittle Rocket Man\u201d last year and threatening him with \u201cfire and fury\u201d.<\/p>\n
Moon said Trump deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with the North.<\/p>\n
The White House said that Trump\u2019s national security adviser, John Bolton, met his South Korean counterpart, Chung Eui-yong, on Friday and both said there were no plans to change the US-South Korea bilateral defence posture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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