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| North Korea U.N. Ambassador Kim Song speaks during a news conference at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., May 21, 2019. Kim argued the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises demonstrate the military threat his country faces every day.(File photo by=REUTERS) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] WASHINGTON: North Korea's U.N. ambassador revealed on Monday that the United States must permanently stop its joint military exercises with South Korea and the deployment of its strategic weapons to the South if it wishes to promote peace on the Korean Peninsula
Kim Song, the chief of North Korea's mission to the United Nations, also said a good relationship might be formed between the North and the U.S. if and when Washington gives up its hostility toward his country. "If the U.S. wants to see the Korean War, the most prolonged and long-lasting war in the world, come to an end, and if it is really desirous of peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula, it should take the first step toward giving up its hostile policy against the DPRK by stopping permanently the joint military exercises and the deployment of all kinds of strategic weapons," Kim said in his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
The renewed accusation of U.S. hostility toward the North comes just a week after South Korean President Moon Jae-in proposed adopting a declaration to formally end the Korean War. Pyongyang earlier said the U.S. must first give up its hostility toward the North before the countries can consider declaring the war's end. Meanwhile, Washington has denied having any hostile intent against the North.
