Kim Jong-un's Sister Says President Trump Must Accept Reality Has Changed

Kim Yo-jong. (Source: KCNA)

JAKARTA - Kim Yo-jong, the younger brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said on Tuesday the United States should accept the fact that the reality has changed since the summit between the two countries in the past, there is no future dialogue that will end its nuclear program, reports state media KCNA.

Kim Yo-jong said he acknowledged the personal relationship between US Leader Kim and US President Donald Trump was "not bad."

However, if Washington intended to use personal relations as a way to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the effort would only be a "humous" material, Kim said in a statement broadcast by KCNA.

"If the US fails to accept the changing reality and continues to insist in the failed past, the DPRK-US meeting will remain a 'estimation' for the US," he said, referring to North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. July 29.

North Korea's ability as a nuclear-armed country and its geopolitical environment has changed radically since Leader Kim and President Trump held talks three times during the US President's first term, he said.

"Any attempt to deny the position of DPRK as a nuclear armed country will be completely rejected," he said.

When asked about North Korea's statement, a White House official said President Trump was still committed to the goals he set in three summits with Leader Kim during his first term.

"The president maintains these goals and remains open to interacting with Leader Kim to achieve fully denuclearized North Korea," the White House official told Reuters.

At their first meeting in Singapore in 2018, Trump and Kim signed a principle agreement to free the Korean Peninsula from nuclear weapons. The next summit in Hanoi the following year failed due to disagreements over the lifting of international sanctions that have been imposed on Pyongyang.

President Trump said he had "good relations" with Leader Kim, and the White House said the US President was open to ideas to communicate with North Korean leaders.

Last April, Kim Yo-jong said North Korea's status as a nuclear-armed country would never be canceled, no matter how much the demands of the United States and its allies.

This was conveyed by him as a response to a joint statement bag of the US Secretary of State, South Korea and Japan on the sidelines of a NATO meeting, reaffirming North Korea's "commitment to complete denuclearization", according to the joint statement.