North Korea attacked President Donald Trump’s claims of progress in denuclearization talks Monday at the United Nations, saying there has been little so far and that the situation remains trapped in a cycle of tension, CNN reported.
More than a year after Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signed a joint statement in Singapore, U.S.-North Korea relations “have made little progress so far and the situation of the Korean Peninsula has not come out of the vicious cycle of increased tension,” North Korea’s representative to the United Nations told the General Assembly on Monday morning.
Kim Song, chair of North Korea’s delegation, told the UN that this was “entirely attributable to the political and military provocations perpetrated by the US resorting to the anachronistic hostile policy against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
The North Korean statement stands as a direct rebuttal to Trump’s repeated insistence that his decision to embrace the repressive dictator has produced progress toward the goal of ridding North Korea of nuclear weapons.
The statement comes on a day when the President’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, publicly aired his disagreement with Trump’s North Korea strategy, telling an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington, that he doesn’t believe North Korea will ever surrender its nuclear weapons.
Bolton also dismissed Trump’s argument about the lack of nuclear and long-range missile testing, saying North Korea no longer needs to test them, as it already has the technology in place.
In June, Trump said Kim Jong-un has “kept his word” when it comes to nuclear and missile testing, a direct contradiction of Bolton, who just hours earlier had accused Pyongyang of failing to follow through on its commitments.
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