[Seoul 6th Reuters]-North Korea's state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) announced the talk of the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 6th, and the Swedish government reconsidered two weeks after the breakup of talks with US officials on the weekend Recognized that the United States will not bring alternatives to the proposal.
The talks held in Sweden on the 5th ended in farewell. However, the US State Department explained that the US side accepted the Swedish government's invitation to reconsult two weeks later.
North Korea warned that the ball was on the US court and would wait until the end of the year for the US to change its response. A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, “The unpleasant talk that the US had done this time (in Sweden) before taking substantial steps towards a complete and irreversible withdrawal of the hostile policy against DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) I'm not going to have it. "
Swedish Foreign Minister Linde pointed out that the talks between the US and North Korea were constructive "as long as they continued." In response to the country's public broadcast “SVT”, “I think that the views were somewhat different regarding the contents achieved in one round of discussion”, and if the US and the North decide to re-discuss, Sweden will become the venue again He added that it was possible. He said, “I think re-consultation is possible, but it is entirely up to the two countries.”
Although it is not clear if North Korea will return to talks, several experts may have been implementing a brink negotiation strategy to draw concessions.
`` North Korea wants to create an impression that the cause of the deadlock is the inflexibility of the US side, '' said Mintaro Oba, a former official who was in charge of North and South Korea issues at the US Department of State. I think we would like to resume the discussion or bring it to the summit level discussion. "
Vipin Narang, a nuclear specialist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also pointed out that North Korea has continued to augment and improve missiles and nuclear weapons, and is taking time to negotiate conditions for acceptance as a nuclear power. “If so, the best strategy is to stagnate negotiations while flickering expectations of future agreements,” he said.
