SEOUL (Reuters) – The U.S. envoy for North Korea arrived in South Korea on Saturday amid stalled denuclearisation talks and rigidity over Pyongyang’s latest missile checks.
Particular Consultant Sung Kim’s go to got here days after North Korea fired a brand new submarine-launched ballistic missile https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-fires-unidentified-projectile-off-east-coast-skorea-military-2021-10-19(SLBM), which prompted criticism from Washington and requires a return to talks geared toward denuclearising the North in return for U.S. sanctions aid.
Kim, after talks in Washington with South Korean and Japanese counterparts on Tuesday, urged North Korea “to chorus from additional provocations and have interaction in sustained and substantive dialogue.”
Pyongyang to date has rejected U.S. overtures, accusing america and South Korea of speaking diplomacy whereas ratcheting up tensions with their very own army actions.
On Thursday, the North mentioned america was overreacting https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-says-us-overreacting-over-submarine-missile-test-2021-10-20 to its self-defensive SLBM take a look at and questioned the sincerity of Washington’s affords of talks, warning of penalties.
Arriving in South Korea, Kim mentioned he seems to be ahead to having “productive observe up discussions” along with his counterpart, with out elaborating.
(Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Enhancing by Kim Coghill)
