Envoy Sung Kim explained that Washington expected Pyongyang to plan a big display of its growing nuclear capabilities for the April 15 celebrations of the 110th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, founder of Korea’s ruling dynasty. North.
“We are concerned that in connection with the upcoming April 15 anniversary, North Korea will be tempted to take another provocative action,” Sung Kim told reporters, recalling the latest ballistic missile launch tests carried out by Pyongyang.
North Korea has carried out several nuclear weapons tests since 2006, the last one being in 2017.
And according to the American envoy, Pyongyang continues to ignore Washington’s attempts to renew a dialogue concerning the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
“We haven’t received any response from Pyongyang, which is very disappointing as we have sent several messages, both publicly and privately, inviting them for dialogue without ‘preconditions’,” he said, affirming that the latest ballistic missile tests posed “a serious threat to regional stability”.
Sung Kim further stressed that neither China nor Russia were helping US President Joe Biden in his attempts to resume talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Talks about limiting the nuclear threat from Pyongyang seemed to make progress under Donald Trump but then stalled.
After Joe Biden came to power, North Korea began a series of 13 missile tests that culminated last month with the launch of a ballistic missile potentially capable of reaching the US east coast while carrying a head. nuclear.
Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of Kim Jong Un, said Tuesday that North Korea would use nuclear weapons to “eliminate” the South Korean army if it launched a preemptive attack.
According to Sung Kim, Washington is trying to pass a new resolution in the UN Security Council condemning Pyongyang’s actions, but Moscow and Beijing have already opposed it six times this year.