Donald Trump’s return to the White House increases the US’s chances of diplomatic negotiations with the DPRK.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared that his country will implement the “toughest” anti-American policy, the country’s state media reported on Sunday. The news came less than a month before Donald Trump’s re-ascension to the post of US president, TASR writes according to the AP agency.
Trump’s return to the White House raises the prospect of high-level diplomatic talks with North Korea. Trump met with Kim three times during his first term to discuss the DPRK’s nuclear program.
However, many experts believe that a quick resumption of such summits is unlikely, as Trump must first focus on the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. According to them, Pyongyang’s support for Russia’s war against Ukraine is also a problem.
Measures against America will be strong
During this week’s meeting of the ruling party, Kim called the US “the most reactionary country that considers anti-communism as its unchanging state policy”. He said the security partnership of the United States, South Korea and Japan was expanding into an “offensive nuclear military bloc”.
“This reality clearly shows which direction we should proceed and what and how we should do,” Kim said, according to the official KCNA news agency. The latter added that Kim’s speech “clarified the strategy of the toughest anti-American measures” that North Korea will intensively implement to pursue long-term national interests.
Trump’s meetings with Kim Jong-un put an end to the previously harsh rhetoric of both leaders, but in 2019 they finally collapsed due to disputes over sanctions against North Korea. Since then, the DPRK has sharply increased the pace of weapons testing. The US and South Korea responded by expanding military exercises to include Japan. North Korea sees this as preparation for an invasion.
Kim said in November that his negotiations with the United States in the past only confirmed Washington’s “unchangeable” hostility towards his country. He described building a nuclear arsenal as the only way to face external threats.
