Kim said that he will wait “till the end of this year” for the United States to decide to be more flexible, according to KCNA. Trump and Kim have met twice, in Hanoi in February and Singapore in June, building goodwill but failing to agree on a deal to lift sanctions in exchange for North Korea abandoning its nuclear and missile programs. Kim’s comments signal he won’t cling to talks with the United States forever, said Kim Dong-yup of Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies in South Korea. The United States had continued to provoke North Korea by testing an anti-ballistic missile system and conducting military drills with South Korea despite Trump’s announcement that large-scale exercises would end, he said. Still, North Korea is committed to better North-South relations and peaceful unification, Kim said.

Source: The Express Tribune April 13, 2019 06:56 UTC