Kim’s Sister Rejects US Offer of Dialogue with North Korea

Voice of America News reports: “The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday dismissed U.S. calls for a return to diplomacy and lambasted its condemnations of the North’s recent spy satellite launch, vowing more launches in violation of U.N. bans.

During a U.N. Security Council meeting earlier this week, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, called the North’s satellite launch a ‘reckless, unlawful’ action that threatens its neighbors. But she reiterated the U.S. offer for dialogue without any preconditions, saying North Korea ‘can choose the timing and topic.’

Kim’s sister and senior official, Kim Yo Jong, rejected the U.S. overture and threatened more satellite and other weapons launches.

‘The sovereignty of an independent state can never be an agenda item for negotiations, and therefore, (North Korea) will never sit face to face with the U.S. for that purpose,’ Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media.

‘(North Korea) will continue to make efforts to develop everything belonging to its sovereign rights and continue to exercise the sovereign rights, enjoyed by all the member states of the U.N., in a dignified manner without being restricted in the future, too,’ she said…”

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