A Foreign Ministry spokesperson accused the US of "misleading the public opinion" by arguing that the willingness to denuclearise expressed by Pyongyang in the Panmunjom Declaration "is the result of pressure and sanctions", reports Efe news. Pyongyang referred to the joint declaration signed by Kim Jong-un and the South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the inter-Korean summit held on April 27 ahead of a planned meeting between Kim and US President Donald Trump. He added that the US is deliberately provoking Pyongyang "at a time when the Korean peninsula is moving towards peace and reconciliation, thanks to the historic inter-Korean summit". The spokesperson stressed that the US should not misinterpret Pyongyang's pacifist willingness as weakness, and warned that "it would not be conducive" to continue with its "pressure and military threats". In the Panmunjom Declaration, Seoul and Pyongyang agreed to work to achieve the complete denuclearisation of the peninsula and also pledged to sign a multilateral agreement to formally end the Korean War (1950-53), which ended with an armistice, but not a peace treaty.

Source: bd News24 May 06, 2018 10:18 UTC