Won’t trade N-weapons for sanctions lift: Kim

Bloomberg

North Korea won’t rely on the personal relationship between its leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump as it doesn’t intend to trade its nuclear weapons for a lift of
sanctions, its state-run media said, citing a foreign ministry adviser.
“There will never be such negotiations as that in Vietnam, in which we proposed exchanging a core nuclear facility of the country for the lift of some United Nations sanctions,” Kim Kye Gwan was quoted as saying by the Korean Central News Agency.
“There is no need for us to be present in such talks, in which there is only unilateral pressure, and we have no desire to barter something for other thing at the talks like traders.”
The dialogue will reopen only under the condition of Washington’s “absolute agreement” on North Korea’s demands, which the US is neither ready for nor able to do, he said.
“We know well about the way we should go and will go on our way.”