North Korea said on Tuesday that relations with the U.S. will develop “wonderfully at a fast pace” if Washington responds to its efforts on denuclearisation with trustworthy measures and practical actions.
North Korea’s Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Han Tae-song, told the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament that Pyongyang would continue working to establish a “permanent and durable peace mechanism on the Korean peninsula”.
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He referred to the joint statement issued after the Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un meeting in Singapore last year and Mr. Kim’s New Year address, adding: “Accordingly we declared that we would neither make and test nuclear weapons any longer nor use and proliferate them and we have taken various practical measures.
“If the U.S. responds to our efforts with trustworthy measures and corresponding practical actions, bilateral relations will develop wonderfully at a fast pace through the process of taking more definite and epoch-making steps,” he said.