UPI:
HANOI, Vietnam, March 1 (UPI) — A senior North Korean diplomat on Friday questioned the need to continue denuclearization talks with the United States, saying leader Kim Jong Un appears to be changing his mind as well.
In an interview with Yonhap News Agency and a few other South Korean news outlets in Hanoi, Vietnam, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui said her country should be rewarded adequately for more than a year of halts to nuclear and long-range missile testing: with the lifting of at least some U.N. sanctions.
A day earlier, the second summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi ended without an agreement. The two sides said the preconditions for sanctions relief was a key sticking point.
“I think about whether [we] should continue talks,” she said, recalling Kim’s New Year’s message, in which he said his regime will be left with no other choice than pursuing a “different path” to dialogue unless the United States takes reciprocal steps.
