
North Korea, after the first more than two years of official negotiations with South Korea, stated that she would not use them to discuss the nuclear program, since this program, according to Pyongyang, does not pose a threat to “fraternal” peoples, Reuters reports.
“All our types of weapons, including atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs and ballistic missiles, are aimed only at the United States, and not at our brothers, China and Russia,” said the chief negotiator from Pyongyang, chairman of the peaceful unification of Korea Ri Son Gvon.
After 11 hours of negotiations, the decision was confirmed in a joint statementto send North Korean athletes to the Olympics in Pyeongchang, but Pyongyang remained unhappy with the proposal to resume negotiations under the Northwestern program of the DPRK.
US President Donald Trump plans to announce the sending of the American delegation to the Winter Olympic Games in the near future, said a representative of the White House National Security Council.
The White House added that for the DPRK participation in the Olympic Games may become an opportunity to see the value of the termination of isolation: "This is an opportunity for the regime to see the value of the cessation of its international isolation by denuclearization."
Among the proposals of Seoul, to reduce military tension, the idea was to hold a meeting of families in February, divided by the war of 1950 - 1953, dedicating it for the holiday of the Lunar New Year.
On January 3, South Korea and the DPRK restored the other line of special communications in the border village of Phanmunge.
In more than two years, the first official negotiations between the two Korea started on Tuesday morning, January 9, in the border village of Phanmunge in a demilitarized zone separating two Korean states. During the dinner, the delegation was divided. However, it is expected that later the discussion will continue.
Previous such negotiations between the two Korea took place in December 2015. A breakthrough in the preparation of new negotiations occurred after the DPRK leader Kim Jong -un, in the New Year's appeal to compatriots , expressed his readiness to send his athletes to the Olympic Games in South Korea and begin negotiations with Seoul. To do this, he ordered to restore a special communication line closed almost two years ago in a demilitarized zone in Phanmunjom.