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The United States said it is ready to engage diplomatically with Pyongyang to achieve the ultimate goal of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, following the completion of a months-long U.S. policy review on North Korea.
“What we have now is a policy that calls for a calibrated practical approach that is open to and will explore diplomacy with North Korea, to try to make practical progress that increases the security of the United States, our allies and our deployed forces,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday during a virtual joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in London.
US Calls on North Korea to Engage Diplomatically
Voice of America
04 May 2021, 06:05 GMT+10
The United States said it is ready to engage diplomatically with Pyongyang to achieve the ultimate goal of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, following the completion of a months-long U.S. policy review on North Korea. What we have now is a policy that calls for a calibrated practical approach that is open to and will explore diplomacy with North Korea, to try to make practical progress that increases the security of the United States, our allies and our deployed forces, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday during a virtual joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in London.
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North Korea gave a warning to the United States on May 2, a day after the White House spokesperson said the Biden administration had finished reviewing its policy toward North Korea.
In a statement by Kwon Jong Gun, head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s North America Department, North Korea warned that it would seek “corresponding measures” after U.S. President Joe Biden’s speech at Capitol Hill last week. Biden said the United States plans to deal with North Korea’s nuclear threats through “diplomacy and firm deterrence.” In the statement, Kwon said that if the United States tries to approach North Korea-U.S. relations through “outdated and old-school policies” from the perspective of the Cold War, it will face an increasingly unaffordable crisis in the near future.
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