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North Korea Says Little Reason to Maintain Kim-Trump Ties

Reuters

   North Korea sees little use in maintaining a personal relationship
   between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump
   if Washington sticks to hostile policies, state media reported on
   Friday on the two-year anniversary of the leaders' first summit.

   U.S. policies prove Washington remains a long-term threat to the North
   Korean state and its people, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon
   said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA.

   The [1]Singapore summit in June 2018 represented the first time a
   sitting American president met with a North Korean leader, but the
   statement that came out of the meeting was light on specifics,'¯opting
   instead for four general commitments.

   A [2]second summit in February 2019 in Vietnam's capital Hanoi,
   failed'¯to reach a deal because of conflicts over U.S. calls for North
   Korea to completely give up its nuclear weapons, and North Korean
   demands for sanctions relief.

References

   1. https://www.voanews.com/usa/singapore-summit-produces-high-hopes-little-details
   2. https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/north-korea-blames-us-failed-talks-vietnam

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