The content of pursuing dialogue without preconditions
Sullivan: ‘We haven’t heard from North Korea’
Resolute response to threats and aggression, open to diplomacy
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▲ White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (center) leaves the White House to go to Los Angeles, where the Organization of Americas Conference will be held on the 8th (local time). AP
The United States announced on the 8th (local time) that it had delivered a high-level personal letter to the North through an unofficial channel stating that it “desires dialogue with North Korea without preconditions.” However, he said that he still had not received a response from North Korea.
At the UN General Assembly meeting held at the UN headquarters in New York on the same day in relation to China and Russia’s exercise of veto power over resolutions on additional sanctions against North Korea, US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Jeffrey DeLorentis said, “President Joe Biden repeatedly and publicly said, ‘We have dialogue with Pyongyang without preconditions. ‘,” and “We delivered these messages through unofficial channels.”
“This includes a high-level personal letter from a high-ranking US official to a high-ranking North Korean official,” he said. It said that the message was delivered in writing through a third party and that it contained specific proposals.
He added, “I invited allies and partners and other countries, including China, to communicate that we are open to diplomacy with North Korea and to make it clear that we are pursuing serious and lasting diplomacy.”
▲ The ROK-U.S. alliance announced that in response to North Korea’s continued ballistic missile provocations, it conducted an air force demonstration flight on the 7th, following the combined firing of the South Korean-US surface-to-surface missiles on the previous day. 2022.6.7 Provided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff
However, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a separate briefing on the same day that “we have not heard from North Korea” about whether the North will respond.
He continued that he was closely watching the possibility of North Korea’s nuclear test and strongly said, “We will respond decisively to any threat or aggression.” However, he continued with a conciliatory gesture, saying, “If North Korea is ready to come to the table, it is open to diplomatic engagement and willing to do so.”
It was a countermeasure against North Korea’s nuclear test.
Deputy ambassador DeRorentis also pointed out that North Korea did not respond to the United States’ proposals for humanitarian aid such as dialogue without preconditions or a vaccine for COVID-19, but “responded with repeated (missile) launches that threaten the world.”
“Sanctions are not a substitute for diplomacy. “The United States is ready to discuss sanctions relief to achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, but until North Korea engages in diplomacy and takes meaningful steps toward denuclearization, we will remain committed to their illegal weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. We have to work together to curb development,” he said.
Correspondent Lee Gyeong-ju, Washington