Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, dismissed the idea of a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this year, but did so with a warm tone that included an unusual mention of DVDs showing celebrations of the U.S. July 4th holiday.
Kim Yo Jong conveyed the best wishes of her brother to Trump but said the time wasn’t right to meet, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday. Her comments came as Trump’s point man for relations with Pyongyang, Stephen Biegun, was on the last day of his trip this week to South Korea and Japan, trying to revive sputtering nuclear negotiations that have made little progress since Kim Jong Un and Trump first met two years ago.
"Given the differences in opinion between the two countries, it wouldn’t be beneficial or necessary for the two sides to meet unless there is a decisive change in the U.S. stance toward North Korea,” Kim Yo Jong said, according KCNA.
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