Monday, May 14, 2018

North Korea will never fully give up nuclear weapons, top defector says ahead of Kim-Trump summit next month

UK Daily Mail


"North Korea will never completely give up its nuclear weapons, a top defector has said ahead of Kim Jong Un's summit with Donald Trump next month.
"Thae Yong-ho, who fled his post as the North's deputy ambassador to Britain in 2016, said the Korean leader will never commit to 'a sincere and complete disarmament'.
" 'In the end, North Korea will remain a nuclear power packaged as a non-nuclear state,' Thae told the South's Newsis news agency."
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"But Thae, one of the highest ranking officials to have defected in recent years, said: 'North Korea will argue that the process of nuclear disarmament will lead to the collapse of North Korea and oppose CVID.'

" 'The North wanted to ensure Kim's absolute power and its model of hereditary succession', he added." . . . Read more.

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