North Korea showed no sincerity in its offer to hold high-level talks with South Korea, keeps on bolstering its nuclear and missile capabilities, and could launch provocations depending on the situation, a top presidential security official said Friday.
“After constantly escalating tensions, North Korea had appeared to be making a dialogue offensive,” Kim Jang-soo, the chief of national security at the presidential office, said during a report to the National Assembly. “But (the North) was not sincere as it unilaterally called off talks over the issue of chief delegates and shifted responsibility.”
Early this month, North Korea made a surprise offer to hold high-level talks with South Korea, an abrupt about-face by a regime that had made near-daily war threats against Seoul and Washington while spurning repeated demands for talks to defuse tensions. (Yonhap News)
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