N Korea’s Kim offers to restore inter-Korean hotline, slams US
Al Jazeera
Leader Kim Jong Un says decision to reactivate the lines by early October is to help ‘realise the expectations and desire of the entire Korean nation’.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said that he is willing to restore severed inter-Korean hotlines by early October but accused the United States of proposing talks without changing its “hostile policy” to the country, state media reported.
Kim made the remarks on Wednesday on the second day of the Supreme People’s Assembly, the North’s rubber-stamp parliament, which is gathering to discuss the country’s political, economic and social agenda.
North Korea this week test fired a previously unseen hypersonic missile, joining a heated race led by the main military powers, and again demanded that Seoul and Washington scrap their “double standards” over weapons development.
