US President Joe Biden’s administration has been trying to establish contact with the regime in North Korea since mid-February. But so far the attempts “through various channels” have proved unsuccessful, a senior US official who wants to remain anonymous to news agency says. Reuters. “To date, we have not received a response from Pyongyang.”
For the time being, Biden’s government has been cautious in public about its approach to North Korea. The new administration is said to be conducting a comprehensive review of the rapprochement policy under Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump, who had a number of meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Trump then failed to get North Korea to relinquish its nuclear weapons. According to the anonymous government official, there have been no negotiations with the regime in Pyongyang for over a year now.
The North Korean delegation to the United Nations in New York has also been approached by Biden’s government. But there was also no response.
Biden called Kim a “criminal” during the election campaign and said he would only meet him “on the condition that he agreed to phase out his nuclear capability.” An American delegation will soon be traveling to South Korea and Japan. Then the concerns of those two countries about North Korea’s nuclear program will reportedly be high on the agenda.
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