Biden’s message to North Korean leader: “Hello”.
“Hello,” the US president, who is in South Korea, said in response to a reporter’s question about whether he had a message for the North Korean leader.
US President Joe Biden appeared before reporters on the last day of his visit to South Korea.
A reporter asked him if he had a message for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, to which he replied briefly: “Hello, that’s it.”
Jake Sullivan, the US National Security Adviser, said on Thursday, ahead of Joe Biden’s visit to Southwest Asia, that North Korean President Kim Jong Un, who had previously met with former US President Donald Trump, was interested in meeting with him. Joe Biden does not.
He said the United States had seen no sign of North Korea’s willingness to hold a bilateral meeting between Kim Jong Un and Joe Biden.
The United States and members of the UN Security Council have imposed several rounds of sanctions on North Korea since North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006.
Despite the sanctions, North Korea has insisted on strengthening its military capability to counter the threat of US troops in the region.
North Korea says it will not back down from its missile and nuclear program until the United States ends its hostile policy to overthrow Pyongyang.
Kim Jong Un met with Donald Trump twice when he was President of the United States. The first meeting of 2018 took place in Singapore and became known as the Singapore Summit. This was the first meeting between the leaders of North Korea and the United States.
At the Singapore meeting, Trump and Kim issued a joint statement containing some security guarantees for North Korea in exchange for the removal of nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula.
The second meeting was held in Hanoi, Vietnam. The meeting came as North Korea complained about the United States’ non-compliance with its commitments at the Singapore summit. As a result, the Hanoi meeting did not conclude and ended without agreement.
