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Kim’s speech comes after the North this week tested what it said was a hypersonic hovering missile (File)
Seoul, South Korea:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un condemned an American offer for dialogue as a “facade,” state media reported Thursday, and accused Joe Biden’s administration of continuing a hostile policy against his endowed country. ‘nuclear weapon.
Talks between Pyongyang and Washington have largely stalled since the failed Hanoi summit between Kim and then-President Donald Trump over sanctions relief and what the North would be ready for to give up in return.
In recent months, the United States has repeatedly offered to meet with North Korean officials anywhere, anytime, without preconditions, while declaring that it will pursue denuclearization.
But Kim condemned the statements as “nothing more than a facade to cover up their deception and hostile acts and an extension of the hostile policies of past administrations,” the official Rodong Sinmun reported.
Under the new administration, “the US military threat and hostile policy against us have not changed at all but have become more cunning,” he said in a lengthy address to the Supreme People’s Assembly, parliament. single party from the North.
Kim’s speech comes after the North this week tested what it said was a hypersonic hovering missile, and earlier this month it announced it had successfully fired a long-range cruise missile. .
The tests are the latest advancements in its weapons development programs, which have seen it face multiple rounds of international sanctions.
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