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- A former top North Korean official believes North Korea will not agree to a US request for a “complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization.”
- Thae Yong Ho, North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to the UK, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will not loosen his grip on nuclear weapons.
- The defector said the regime might be looking into tourism projects near coastal areas and eventually seek joint economic projects with South Korea.
An ex-North Korean official suggested that his former country may have a different definition of the term that has been circulating around foreign policy circles ahead of the upcoming summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un: denuclearization.
Thae Yong Ho, North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to the UK, said he did not believe Kim would agree to a US request of a “complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization” due to likelihood that it would “strike at the core of North Korea’s power structure.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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