In 2019, the North said Biden should be “beaten to death with a stick”. During a visit to Washington last month by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the united State president
Biden said he “would not meet” Kim unless there was a concrete plan for negotiating on Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal.North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un has said his country needs to prepare for “both dialogue and
confrontation” with the United States under President Joe Biden, state media
reported on Friday.
At a plenary
meeting of the central committee of the governing Workers’ Party of Korea on
Thursday, Kim outlined his strategy for relations with Washington, and the
“policy tendency of the newly emerged US administration”, the Korean Central
News Agency said.
The comments
mark the first time Kim has made a reference to the country’s policy towards
the US since the inauguration of US President Joe Biden.
Kim “stressed
the need to get prepared for both dialogue and confrontation, especially to get
fully prepared for confrontation in order to protect the dignity of our state”
and reliably guarantee a “peaceful environment”, KCNA reported.
The North
Korean leader “called for sharply and promptly reacting to and coping with the
fast-changing situation and concentrating efforts on taking stable control of
the situation on the Korean peninsula”, the agency said.
Pyongyang had
already accused Biden of pursuing a “hostile policy” and saying it was a “big
blunder” for the veteran Democrat to say he would deal with the threat posed by
the North’s nuclear programme “through diplomacy as well as stern deterrence”.
Biden’s
predecessor Donald Trump made headlines – but little diplomatic progress – with
a series of face-to-face meetings with Kim, an approach that Biden has said he
will not pursue unless the terms change dramatically.
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