September 29, 2018

North Korea needs more trust in the US and the developing relationship between the two countries before it will abandon its nuclear weapons, Pyongyang’s top diplomat said on Saturday.

More than three months after a summit in Singapore, North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong-ho told world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly Pyongyang does not see a “corresponding response” from Washington to its early disarmament moves. Instead, he said, the US is continuing sanctions aimed at keeping up pressure.

“The perception that sanctions can bring us on our knees is a pipe dream of the people who are ignorant of us,” Ri said, adding that continued sanctions are “deepening our mistrust” and deadlocking diplomacy.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/29/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-trust-us