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| North Korea won’t stop nuclear expansion in face of US threat - but US attitude adjustment can work wonders, Kim says | North Korea won’t stop nuclear expansion in face of US threat - but US attitude adjustment can work wonders, Kim says |
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| North Korea will continue building up its nuclear deterrent to counter US aggression, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said - but the degree to which it expands its weapons program will depend on the US’ attitude. | North Korea will continue building up its nuclear deterrent to counter US aggression, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said - but the degree to which it expands its weapons program will depend on the US’ attitude. |
| Accusing the US of insincerity regarding discussions about the partial lifting of sanctions, Kim held up Washington’s “gangster-like demands” as the reason no agreement had yet been reached between the two countries. | Accusing the US of insincerity regarding discussions about the partial lifting of sanctions, Kim held up Washington’s “gangster-like demands” as the reason no agreement had yet been reached between the two countries. |
| The more the US stalls for time, Kim said, the more it will find itself “helpless in the face of North Korean power.” North Korea has a “new strategic weapon” up its sleeve, he warned, and time was running out before his government would be moved to take “shocking actual action.” | The more the US stalls for time, Kim said, the more it will find itself “helpless in the face of North Korean power.” North Korea has a “new strategic weapon” up its sleeve, he warned, and time was running out before his government would be moved to take “shocking actual action.” |
| North Korea would no longer hold to its self-imposed ban on nuclear and long-range missile tests, because the US had kept on staging military drills with South Korea. | |
| Kim had pledged to take a “new path” if the US did not relax sanctions on North Korea by the end of the year. | |
| He also pledged to “continue to develop strategic weapons unless the US drops hostile policy.” Kim has repeatedly balked at the total denuclearization Washington demands before it is willing to consider sanctions relief, given the dire fates that have befallen other US enemies - Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein - who gave up their weapons. | |
| The US, meanwhile, has refused to budge on sanctions, with the State Department confirming to Korean media on Tuesday that it would not back a joint Chinese-Russian proposal recently circulated among the UN Security Council to remove some of the sanctions that have suffocated North Korea for years. Insisting that Pyongyang is not only “threatening to conduct an escalated provocation” but “continuing to maintain and advance its prohibited weapons of mass destruction” programs, Washington nevertheless claims to be committed to diplomacy - just on its terms. | |
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