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 by AFP Staff Writers Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2022
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that North Korea may be seeking attention with its missile launches, which he said were "destabilizing." The top US diplomat renewed calls for North Korea to sit down for talks with the United States, which he said harbored no "hostile intent" toward Kim Jong Un's regime. "I think some of this is North Korea trying to get attention. It's done that in the past; it'll probably continue to do that," Blinken said in a televised interview with MSNBC. North Korea's tests are "profoundly destabilizing, it's dangerous, and it contravenes a whole host of UN Security Council resolutions," Blinken said. North Korean state media reported on Wednesday that Kim personally oversaw a successful launch of a hypersonic missile, the second such launch by the nuclear-armed nation in less than a week. Washington soon afterward announced sanctions on five North Koreans linked to the ballistic missile program, prompting accusations from a foreign ministry spokesman in Pyongyang that it was "intentionally escalating" the situation. If "the US adopts such a confrontational stance, the DPRK will be forced to take stronger and certain reaction to it," the spokesman said in comments carried by state news agency KCNA early Friday in North Korea. Diplomacy has been at a standstill since Kim held three meetings with former president Donald Trump, who took an unusually personal approach to the diplomacy. Trump's talks did not produce a lasting agreement and North Korea has not shown interest in offers of lower-level engagement by President Joe Biden's administration.
North Korea says Kim Jong Un oversaw hypersonic missile test Seoul (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of a hypersonic missile, state media reported Wednesday, the second such launch by the nuclear-armed nation in less than a week. The missile carrying a "hypersonic gliding vehicle" hit "the set target in waters 1,000 km" away, the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Photographs posted on the website of Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the ruling Workers' Party, showed Kim Jong Un wearing a long black leat ... read more
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