The national security adviser claims the Trump administration has “reached out to North Koreans” to resume diplomatic talks, Axios reported on Sunday.
“We’ve reached out to the North Koreans and let them know that we would like to continue the negotiations in Stockholm that were last undertaken in early October,” Robert O’Brien told the news outlet.
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Whether those talks will ever resume is dependent on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who said recently that Pyongyang has been “deceived by the U.S.” and that the Trump administration wasted the last 18 months of diplomacy.
Trump offered Kim birthday greetings recently but the North Korean leader said the leaders’ “personal” relationship is not enough to persuade the state at large to return to the table with the United States.
“Although Chairman Kim Jong Un has a good personal feelings about President Trump, they are, in the true sense of the word, ‘personal,’” top Foreign Ministry official Kim Kye Gwan wrote. “The Chairman of the State Affairs Commission would not discuss the state affairs on the basis of such personal feelings, as he represents our state and its interests.”
