© Reuters. Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s chief Kim Jong Un, arrives on the Vostochny Сosmodrome earlier than a gathering of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin with North Korea’s chief Kim Jong Un, within the far japanese Amur area, Russia, September 13, 2023. Sputnik/
By Hyonhee Shin
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea mentioned it should by no means negotiate its sovereignty with the US, criticising Washington as “double-faced” for providing talks whereas ramping up army actions within the area, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
Kim Yo Jong, the highly effective sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong Un and a senior official, mentioned the U.S. confirmed “extreme double standards” at this week’s assembly of the U.N. Safety Council over North Korea’s current launch of its first spy satellite tv for pc.
The assembly set the stage for a uncommon, public spat between U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and North Korean Ambassador Kim Track, each arguing that their international locations’ army actions are defensive.
Kim Yo Jong mentioned Thomas-Greenfield highlighted efforts to reopen talks with North Korea whilst she lacked “justifiable ground” for denying its sovereign proper to area growth.
The U.S. and South Korea have condemned the satellite tv for pc launch as a violation of U.N. Safety Council resolutions banning North Korea’s use of any ballistic know-how.
Thomas-Greenfield additionally didn’t “make a more logical excuse for how the U.S. stand for ‘diplomatic engagement’ and its efforts to ‘resume dialogue’ blend with the provocative military activities of the U.S. nuclear carrier and nuclear submarine deployed in the Korean peninsula,” Kim mentioned, in response to KCNA.
“We make it clear once again to the U.S. which asked the DPRK to fix the time and agenda for resuming the DPRK-U.S. dialogue,” Kim mentioned, calling North Korea by the initials of its official identify, the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea.
“The sovereignty of an independent state can never be an agenda item for negotiations, and therefore, the DPRK will never sit face to face with the U.S. for that purpose.”
Kim additionally mentioned it was Washington’s “double standards” and “high-handed and arbitrary practices,” not her nation’s area programme, which dent regional peace and stability.
In one other dispatch, KCNA mentioned chief Kim inspected images of a U.S. naval base in San Diego and a Kadena air base in Japan, taken by a spy satellite tv for pc.
Pyongyang has mentioned the satellite tv for pc was designed to watch U.S. and South Korean army actions, and has photographed U.S. army bases world wide together with in Guam and Italy, in addition to such installations because the White Home and Pentagon.
However state media has not launched any imagery, fuelling debate amongst officers and analysts in Seoul and Washington over how succesful the satellite tv for pc really is.
In a separate commentary, KCNA denounced South Korea for intensifying what it known as “war provocative moves” via joint army drills with U.S. troops, involving plane provider Carl Vinson.
It accused South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol of taking part in a key position in “formalising a concrete nuclear war provocation plan” by bringing U.S. nuclear strategic property and stepping up mixed workout routines additionally together with Japan.
South Korea had initially deliberate to launch its personal first spy satellite tv for pc on a U.S. Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday, however the plan was postponed as a consequence of climate.
