SEOUL, Oct.24 (Reuters) – North Korea’s recent ballistic missile tests are “worrying and counterproductive” and Pyongyang should start talks instead, the US special envoy to Korea said on Sunday. North.
“Our goal remains to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” said Sung Kim. “This is why the tests carried out by Pyongyang in recent weeks are worrying and counterproductive for the establishment of lasting peace on the peninsula.”
So far, North Korea has rejected offers for dialogue from the United States, accusing Washington and Seoul of talking about diplomacy while stoking tensions through their own military activities.
“We call on the DPRK to put an end to these provocations and its destabilizing activities, and instead ask it to engage in dialogue,” said Sung Kim, using the initials of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the official name of Korea. North.
Noh Kyu-duk, South Korea’s nuclear envoy, said his Sunday interview with Sung Kim included a “serious” discussion of Seoul’s proposal to officially declare an end to the state of war, which has technically been around since the Korean War of 1950-1953 ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
(Report Josh Smith; French version Camille Raynaud)
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