Kim Kye
Gwan, advisor of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, issued the following statement on
Saturday
From the outset of this year, the south
Korean authorities have become too busy, talking about urgent conveying of the
U.S. president's birthday greetings to the Chairman of our State Affairs
Commission.
This is what the U.S. president asked for
to be surely conveyed to the Chairman when he met the person concerned of
Chongwadae in Washington, the south Korean authorities said in an extremely
urgent notice they sent. But they seem not to know that there is a special
liaison channel between the top leaders of the DPRK and the U.S.
The birthday greetings from the U.S.
president that reached us by care of the excited south Korean authorities
through the notice is what we already got through the personal letter of the
U.S. president.
South Korea, not a member of the U.S. clan,
went so frivolous as to convey the greetings from the U.S. president. It seems
it still has lingering hope for playing the role of "mediator" in the
DPRK-U.S. relations.
To forge personal relations between heads
of state is a diplomatically natural thing between states.
However, it is
somehow presumptuous for south Korea to meddle in the personal relations
between Chairman of the State Affairs Commission Kim Jong Un and President
Trump.
As acknowledged by the world, it is true
that the personal relations between the Chairman of our State Affairs
Commission and President Trump are not bad.
But, it is absentminded to think of either
making us return to the dialogue with the U.S. by taking the advantage of such
relations or creating an atmosphere for it.
We have been deceived by the U.S., being
caught in the dialogue with it for over one year and a half, and that was the
lost time for us.
Although Chairman Kim Jong Un has a good
personal feelings about President Trump, they are, in the true sense of the
word, "personal". The Chairman of the State Affairs Commission would
not discuss the state affairs on the basis of such personal feelings, as he
represents our state and its interests.
What is clear is that we will never lose
our time again, being taken in by the U.S. trick as in the past.
There will never be such negotiations as
that in Vietnam, in which we proposed exchanging a core nuclear facility of the
country for the lift of some UN sanctions in a bid to lessen the sufferings of
the peaceable people even a bit.
There is no need for us to be present in
such talks, in which there is only unilateral pressure, and we have no desire
to barter something for other thing at the talks like traders.
It can be said that the reopening of dialogue
between the DPRK and the U.S. may be possible only under the condition of the
latter's absolute agreement on the issues raised by the former, but we know
well that the U.S. is neither ready nor able to do so.
We know well about the way we should go and
will go on our way.
Under these circumstances, the south Korean
authorities had better not dream a fabulous dream that we would return to the
dialogue with thankful feelings for the birthday greetings like someone. They
are well advised to behave prudently not to be reduced to a fool heading
nowhere.