North Korea said Thursday it will ignore attempts by the US to contact it, the South’s Yonhap news agency reported, hours before President Joe Biden’s …
North Korea said Thursday it will ignore attempts by the US to contact it, the South’s Yonhap news agency reported, hours before President Joe Biden’s top envoys were to hold talks in Seoul. The comments from the North’s first vice foreign minister Choe Son Hui came with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin in the South for the second leg of an Asian tour to bolster a united front against the nuclear-armed North and an increasingly assertive China. The pair have repeatedly called for the “complete denuclearisation of North Korea” on their trip, which began in Japan. There could be no contact nor dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang “until the US withdraws its hostile DPRK policy”, Yonhap cited Choe as saying in a statement carried by state media, referring to the North by its official name. “Therefore, we will continue to ignore such attempts by the US in the future,” she added. “After the change of government in the United States, the only sounds that have echoed are the crazy rumours of the ‘threat of DPRK’ and the blind screaming of ‘complete denuclearisation’.
