Warning to Biden address: do not provoke North Korea | Abroad

The new leadership of the United States should not cause unrest on its first step if it wants peace, the state news agency KCNA quotes the sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Yo-young.

The statement comes shortly after Washington’s announcement that Pyongyang has so far failed to respond to the United States’ request to enter into dialogue. “Our goal is to reduce the risk of escalation. But to date we have not received a response, ”said a White House spokesman. President Biden had called North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a “criminal” during his election campaign. He said he would only meet him if he agreed to phase out his nuclear arsenal.

Trump rapprochement

Under the previous president, the relationship between the two sworn enemies initially seemed to relax a bit, even after Trump’s ‘Little Rocket Man’ tweet, but the relationship gradually cooled again.

Armed to the teeth, North Korea ended diplomacy with Trump, although US President and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held three high-profile summits. But Trump refused to lift sanctions as long as Kim did nothing to dismantle his nuclear weapons.

There has been a huge shift in the White House now that Joe Biden is in power, says foreign editor Frank van Vliet in the America podcast ‘Uncle Joe – a look at the us’:

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