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When he met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang last month, Mr. Kim also proposed to demolish the main missile development facilities, including a test site of motor engines. missiles, and invite outside experts to monitor them.
Kim also proposed further measures, including the "permanent dismantling" of his country's main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, about 100 kilometers north of Pyongyang, if Washington acted in the same conditions.
But such gestures have remained below American requirements. North Korea has not offered any detailed commitment to dismantle its nuclear arsenal. Nor has it communicated its nuclear stocks, including the number and size of its nuclear weapons and the quantity of its bombs, so that they can be checked by international inspectors.
But North Korea said on Tuesday that the United States has not done enough. In addition to suspending joint military exercises with South Korea this year, Washington has done nothing to encourage North Korea to take bolder steps toward denuclearization, the North said.
Washington should have made the end of war declaration a long time ago, instead of trying to use it as a currency of exchange.
Some analysts in Washington and Seoul, the capital of the South, fear that the North will use an end-of-war declaration to justify strengthening its campaign for the withdrawal of 28,500 US troops based in the South.
Mr. Moon, the leader of the South, supports a declaration of end of war. But he says that he and Mr. Kim agree that the statement would not affect the status of US troops in South Korea and would only serve as a prelude to the negotiation of the US military. a peace treaty to formally end the war.
Mr Moon is counting on Mr Kim and Mr Trump to use their personal ties to create a breakthrough in the nuclear talks. Over the weekend, Trump said he and Kim "fell in love" after receiving "beautiful" letters from the young North Korean dictator.
