Reference News Network July 29 report. According to the Korean Central News Agency, on July 28, Kim Yo-jong, deputy director of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, gave a speech titled "Kim Jong-un and the U.S. Contact is Just America's 'Hope'." Kim Yo-jong said that the U.S. government recently expressed an open attitude towards dialogue with the North Korean leader to achieve complete denuclearization of North Korea, but the North Korean side does not want to assign any significance to the unilateral evaluation of past U.S.-North Korea dialogues by the U.S. side.
She said: "The irreversible status of our country as a nuclear-armed state and its capabilities, as well as the geopolitical environment, have undergone fundamental changes. Acknowledging this undeniable fact should become the premise for predicting and thinking about everything in the future."
According to the report, Kim Yo-jong said that North Korea is open to any options for maintaining its current national status.
She said, "We do not want to deny the fact that the personal relationship between our head of state and the current U.S. president is not bad," "but if the personal relationship between the heads of state of North Korea and the United States is put on the same line as the goal of denuclearization, it will only be interpreted as deception of the other party."
Kim Yo-jong said that if the United States does not accept the changed reality and clings to the failed past, the U.S.-North Korea summit can only remain as America's "hope".
Another report from the Singapore-based "Lianhe Zaobao" website on July 29 stated that when asked about Kim Yo-jong's statement, a White House official said that President Trump still remains committed to the goals set during the summit he held with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during his first term.
The White House official said, "The president still stands by these goals and is willing to engage with Kim Jong-un to achieve the complete denuclearization of North Korea."
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