The birthday greeting that Donald Trump sent to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seems not to have helped improve relations between the two countries, after this Saturday North Korea said they will not resume talks on the nuclear program.
"Although President Kim Jong Un has good personal feelings about President Trump, those are, as the word says, personal feelings ," Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan said, NBC News reported, citing the state agency KCNA
Kim's personal feelings are not enough to resume the diplomatic channel. His country is not led based on personal feelings, the minister added.
This Friday, South Korea reported that Trump asked to send a birthday greeting to Kim, although he did not reveal the exact content of the message. However, on Saturday Pyongyang claimed to have received the message directly from the United States and described as "presumptuous" that Seoul would involve.
Bilateral relations have suffered a deterioration, at least dialectical, in recent weeks, with threats from Kim that Trump has tried to contemplate.
North Korea has not launched any missiles or conducted any atomic tests since 2017, when it said it launched its first intercontinental projectile, supposedly capable of flying through space and hitting the United States with its most powerful weapon, a hydrogen bomb.
After the last nuclear test, in September of that year, Trump changed his rhetoric and stopped ridiculing Kim and threatening to annihilate him, to praise him as a statesman and say they had "fallen in love."
According to the Foreign Minister, the series of summits that Trump and Kim have held in recent times have been a "wasted time" and said "the United States has deceived us ."
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