“We make it clear once again to the U.S. which asked the DPRK to fix the time and agenda for resuming the DPRK-U.S. dialogue,” Kim said, calling North Korea by the initials of its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“The sovereignty of an independent state can never be an agenda item for negotiations, and therefore, the DPRK will never sit face to face with the U.S. for that purpose.”
Kim also said it was Washington’s “double standards” and “high-handed and arbitrary practices,” not her country’s space program, which dent regional peace and stability.
In another dispatch, KCNA said leader Kim inspected photos of a U.S. naval base in San Diego and a Kadena air base in Japan, taken by a spy satellite.
Pyongyang has said the satellite was designed to monitor U.S. and South Korean military movements, and has photographed U.S. military bases around the world including in Guam and Italy, as well as such installations as the White House and Pentagon.
But state media has not released any imagery, fueling debate among officials and analysts in Seoul and Washington over how capable the satellite actually is.
In a separate commentary, KCNA denounced South Korea for intensifying what it called “war provocative moves” through joint military drills with U.S. troops, involving aircraft carrier Carl Vinson.
It accused South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol of playing a key role in “formalizing a concrete nuclear war provocation plan” by bringing U.S. nuclear strategic assets and stepping up combined exercises also including Japan.
South Korea had initially planned to launch its own first spy satellite on a U.S. Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday, but the plan was postponed due to weather.
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