Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has expressed a desire to engage in dialogue with Kim Jong Un, the chairman of North Korea's State Affairs Commission, for the denuclearization of North Korea. This comes after Kim Yo Jong, the deputy director of the North Korean Workers' Party, stated that negotiations between North Korea and the U.S. are impossible.
According to Reuters on the 28th (local time), a White House official stated that President Trump remains open to communicating with Kim Jong Un to end North Korea's nuclear development.
This response came after Kim Yo Jong remarked in a statement that, "If the U.S. cannot accept the changed reality and remains fixated on the past, a meeting between North Korea and the U.S. will only remain a hope for the U.S."
While Kim Yo Jong noted, "I do not wish to deny the fact that the personal relationship between our head of state and the current president of the U.S. is not bad," she also emphasized the need to remember that "2025 is not 2018 or 2019," reaffirming that negotiations aimed at the denuclearization of North Korea will not take place.
So far, the Trump administration has consistently stated that the U.S. aims for the complete denuclearization of North Korea, and President Trump has expressed a willingness to pursue diplomacy, including summits with North Korea, to achieve this.
However, some have analyzed that the complete denuclearization of North Korea has become impossible due to the Trump administration's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Victor Cha, the Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), claimed, "The lesson North Korea has learned from this incident is that 'it must protect its nuclear weapons to prevent dozens of large underground penetrating bombs from falling on North Korea,'" and asserted, "Fundamentally, 'Complete, Verifiable, and Irreversible Denuclearization (CVID)' of North Korea may have ended."