North Korea’s vice foreign minister said the future of the summit between Pyongyang and Washington is “entirely” up to the United States and condemned a media interview by US Vice President Mike Pence in which he compared the North to Libya.
North Korea on Thursday issued a new threat to walk away from the planned Trump-Kim summit, scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, saying the future of the summit is “entirely” up to the US.
“We will neither beg the US for dialogue nor take the trouble to persuade them if they do not want to sit together with us,” said Choe Son Hui, according to a report by North Korea’s central news agency on Thursday.
North Korea’s vice-foreign minister Choe Son Hui, a longtime nuclear negotiator, said her country will reconsider the planned summit with the United States if Washington sticks to “unlawful and outrageous acts”.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would know next week whether his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would take place on June 12 in Singapore as scheduled, casting further doubt on plans for the unprecedented meeting.
It was the second time Pyongyang is threatening to reconsider the high-stakes summit. North Korea’s first vice-foreign minister Kim Kye Gwan last Wednesday (May 16) threatened to scrap the summit if Pyongyang was pushed toward “unilateral nuclear abandonment”.
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