Former South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who organized historic meetings between the North Korean dictator and Donald Trump, then president of the USA, stated in a new book that Kim Jon-un was “desperate” to become get rid of its nuclear weapons.
According to Jae-in’s reports, the communist leader of the North did not want his daughter’s generation, tipped to replace him in power, to live with this “burden”. With this, Kim Jong-un would have “sincerely demonstrated commitment to denuclearization”, said the former South Korean president.
The statement provoked harsh criticism within his country, especially Kim Yung-ho, minister of Southern Unification and mainly responsible for the situation with the North.
He stated that it is unacceptable for Seoul to simply rely on the “good faith” of the North Korean dictator, putting its people and national security at risk. At a press conference, the minister said: “although we ignore the capacity [nuclear] of North Korea, if we focus only on the North’s intentions, it could result in a miscalculation of the security situation.”
Despite the Trump administration’s diplomatic efforts to persuade Pyongyang to dissolve its nuclear program at the Hanoi Summit in 2019, negotiations were unsuccessful. Since then, the Northern regime has significantly increased its involvement in the manufacture of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.
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