Thursday, March 18, 2021

North Korea says no talks with US while ‘hostile policy’ in place | Al Jazeera

North Korea said on Thursday it would ignore all efforts by the United States to foster contact or dialogue while Washington pursued what it described as a “hostile policy”, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said both pressure and diplomatic options are on the table in dealing with Pyongyang.

The North’s first Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son Hui spoke as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin were in the South on the second leg of a northeast Asian tour designed to bolster a united front on the 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 “unless the US rolls back its hostile policy towards the DPRK”, Choe said in a statement carried on Thursday by the official Korean Central News Agency, referring to the North by its official name.

“Therefore, we will disregard such an attempt of the US in the future, too.”...

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