One Year

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The leader held an impromptu meeting in the demilitarized zone between the Koreas last June

North Korea birthday greetings from US President, Donald Trump for Kim Jong-Il received-un, but says their personal relationship is not enough to restart the nuclear negotiations.

Mr. Kim came personally, Mr Trump, but would not cause his country on the basis of his feelings, said foreign Ministry adviser, Kim Kye Gwan.

He said that no talks were possible unless the United States accepted the North's demands.

the relations between the Two Countries have deteriorated in recent months.

Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump, instead of face-to-face conversations in the year 2018 and the last year has come to denuclearisation, but The Talks stalled, as the U.S. refuses to lift sanctions until North Korea fully abandoned its nuclear program.

In a statement carried out, which was involved by the state news Agency KCNA, Mr Kye, a veteran diplomat who in previous disarmament negotiations, said Pyongyang would not give up its nuclear facilities In Return for partial sanctions relief.

"The re-opening of the dialogue between [North Korea ] and the US is only possible under the condition of the latter, the absolute agreement on the questions of the former, but we know that the United States is neither ready nor able to," he said.

The consultant also said it would "never such negotiations are in Vietnam " - a reference to the second trumpet-Kim summit, during which the North dismantling of the Yongbyon nuclear complex In Return , all sanctions against the country lifted. The Talks broke held in 2019, after the US refused to do so.

Earlier this month, and said his country would soon introduce a "new strategic weapon". But he left the door open for dialogue, namely the scope of the tests depend on the American "attitude".

The North carried out a number of smaller weapons tests until late in 2019, in what was seen as an attempt to pressure the US into concessions.

Mr Kye also confirmed that the country of Mr Trump's personal letter had congratulated Mr Kim's birthday, believed to expect that on January 8, but said it would be "absent-minded", a resumption of the negotiations based on their relationship, which he described as "not bad".

"Although President Kim Jong-said the un has personal good personal feelings about President Trump, you are, in the truest sense of the word, "" he said. "We were betrayed by the United States to caught, in the dialogue with it for about a year and a half, and that was the Lost Time for us. "

Prof Mason Richey at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul told the Reuters news Agency: "[The] statement did not close the door on diplomacy More Than it already was, but he also highlighted how the United States and North Korea , in principle, different strategic interests, with almost no meaningful overlap. "

As we have here?

The consultant also South Korea warned against the attempt as an intermediary between the United States and the North. On Friday, an official from South Korea said Lord had Trump asked the country's authorities to pass on birthday greetings to North Korea .

For South Korea interfere in the personal relations between Mr Kim and Mr Trump was "measured", Mr Kye said, adding that it is a "special liaison channel" between the two leaders. South Korea has the presidency declined to comment.

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Source of news: bbc.com