North Korea seems determined to project an image of strength ahead of the highly anticipated sit-down with Trump.
North Korea seems none too happy about President Donald Trump’s bluster ahead of the highly anticipated talks between the two leaders. Pyongyang warned on Sunday that Trump’s “misleading” statements amounted to a “dangerous attempt” to ruin the peaceful atmosphere that has been built on the Korean Peninsula. In addition, North Korea wants to make clear that U. S. sanctions are not the reason why it agreed to sit at the negotiating table.
“The U. S. is deliberately provoking the DPRK at the time when the situation on the Korean Peninsula is moving toward peace and reconciliation,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman told the North’s official news agency KCNA, which refers to North Korea’s formal name of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “This 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.”
The spokesman went on to warn the United States that it shouldn’t misinterpret “the peace-loving intention” of North Korea “as a sign of ‘weakness’” while it “continues to pursue its pressure and military threats.
