{"id":57107,"date":"2020-07-05T19:44:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/07\/05\/north-korea-says-it-has-no-plans-for-talks-with-us\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:03:42","slug":"north-korea-says-it-has-no-plans-for-talks-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2020\/07\/05\/north-korea-says-it-has-no-plans-for-talks-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea says it has no plans for talks with US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 North Korea on Saturday reiterated it has no immediate plans to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States unless Washington discards what it describes as \u201chostile\u201d polices toward Pyongyang<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement by North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui came after President Donald Trump\u2019s former national security adviser, John Bolton, told reporters in New York Thursday that Trump might seek another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as an \u201cOctober surprise\u201d ahead of the U.S. presidential election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who had lobbied hard to help set up the now-stalled negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang, also expressed hope that Trump and Kim would meet again before the election in a video conference with European leaders on Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim and Trump have met three times since embarking on their high-stakes nuclear diplomacy in 2018, but negotiations have faltered since their second summit in February last year in Vietnam, where the Americans rejected North Korean demands for major sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim entered 2020 vowing to bolster his nuclear deterrent in face of \u201cgangster-like\u201d U.S. sanctions<\/a> and pressure. Choe\u2019s statement followed a series of similar declarations by the North that it would no longer gift Trump with high-profile meetings <\/a>he could boast of as his foreign policy achievements unless it gets something substantial in return. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIs it possible to hold dialogue or have any dealings with the U.S. which persists in the hostile policy toward the DPRK in disregard of the agreements already made at the past summit?\u201d Choe said, referring to North Korea by its formal name, the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do not feel any need to sit face-to-face with the U.S., as it does not consider the DPRK-U.S. dialogue as nothing more than a tool for grappling its political crisis,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\t