North Korea: North Korea on Tuesday asked the US to accept its status as a nuclear weapons state before any new summit with President Donald Trump, state news agency KCNA reported.
According to TRTworld.com, in a statement, Kim Yo Jong, the North Korean leader's sister and vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea, stated that North Korea's nuclear status is now "irreversible." She emphasized that the acknowledgment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a nuclear weapons state and the significant changes in its capabilities and geopolitical environment should be prerequisites for any future considerations.
Trump, in 2019, became the first sitting US president to set foot on North Korean territory. During a series of negotiations concerning Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, he met with Kim Jong Un in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea.
Kim Yo Jong noted that while the personal ties between the North Korean leader and Trump were not bad, these relationships would be meaningless if the US continues to pursue denuclearization goals without adapting to the current geopolitical landscape. She warned, "If the US fails to accept the changed reality and persists in the failed past, the DPRK-US meeting will remain a hope of the US side."