Seventy countries have called on North Korea after the recent weapons tests, its nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and related programs, and the “continuing threat” to the world, denounced peace.
Pyongyang will be encouraged to “avoid any provocation”, said the French-drafted document, from Friday. Among the signatories of the United States, South Korea as well as countries from Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe, however, Russia and China.
North Korea is urged in the document that “talks with the US on denuclearization to continue”. North Korea had previously triggered with two missile tests within a week of sharp criticism in large Parts of the international community.
experts assume that Pyongyang intends to exercise with the firings pressure on the United States in the stalled talks on dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons Arsenal.
Trump: No breach of trust
U.S. President Donald Trump assured, however, on Friday, the Test would not have affected his relationship with the North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un. “I do not consider this as a breach of trust,” said Trump in an Interview with the political magazine “Politico”. It was only short-range missiles, “very normal stuff. Very normal”.
Just 24 hours earlier the US President had taken the weapons tests as a reason to doubt the willingness to negotiate Pyongyangs out of the question. “I know, you want to negotiate, you talk Negotiate. But I don’t think you are ready to Negotiate,” he said on Thursday in the White house.
“it was very normal stuff”: Donald Trump, pictured here with his wife Melania and the White house says it was only to be short-range missiles. (10. May 2019) image: Jim Watson/AFP
Kim had agreed at a summit meeting with Trump in the past year in Singapore on the principle of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Concrete steps were agreed.
their second summit in March in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, Kim and Trump broke off inconclusively. North Korea had called for a lifting of sanctions, a counter-performance Pyongyangs but no agreement reached.
(oli/sda)
Created: 11.05.2019, 16:10 PM
