In a response to Ri's statement, South Korea's Unification Ministry said it'll continue its efforts to adopt the end-of-the war declaration and strengthen co-operation with related countries. hostile policy toward (North Korea) getting vicious day by day." North Korea has also long described U.S.-led economic sanctions as proof of U.S. military drills in the region "all point to the U.S. Vice Foreign Minister Ri Thae Song said American weapons and troops deployed in South Korea and its vicinity and regular U.S. Military guard posts of North Korea, rear, and South Korea, bottom, are seen in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, on Friday. To achieve the end-of-the war declaration, she said: "We must ensure mutual respect toward one another and abandon prejudiced views, harshly hostile policies and unfair double standards toward the other side first." "If (South) Korea distances itself from the past when it provoked us and criticized us at every step with its double standards and restores sincerity in its words and actions and abandons its hostility, we would then be willing to resume close communication and engage in constructive discussions about restoring and developing relations," Kim Yo Jong said. Her proposal also came days after North Korea performed its first missile tests in six months and South Korea performed its first test of a submarine-launched missile. Kim Yo Jong's statement was a response to South Korean President Moon Jae-in's renewed calls for a declaration to end the 1950-53 Korean War as a way to bring back peace. Thomas-Greenfield said President Joe Biden's administration was "prepared to engage in serious and sustained diplomacy."Įuropean council members - France, Estonia and Ireland - also urged North Korea to "engage meaningfully" with repeated offers of dialogue by the United States and South Korea.The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Friday her country is willing to resume talks with South Korea if it doesn't provoke the North with hostile policies and double standards. calls for Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons and North Korea's demands for an end to sanctions. President Donald Trump met three times in 20, but failed to make progress on U.S. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and then-U.S. North Korea's mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thomas-Greenfield's remarks. "We have offered to meet the DPRK officials, without any preconditions, and we have made clear that we hold no hostile intent toward the DPRK," Thomas-Greenfield said. The much-lauded Swiss quality of life has a dark side - namely levels of consumerism and convenience that jack up the national carbon footprint. Swiss CO2 emissions: Small country, big footprint The measures include a ban on ballistic missile launches. sanctions since 2006, which have been steadily strengthened in a bid to cut off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. "The DPRK must abide by the Security Council resolutions and it is time to engage in sustained and substantive dialogue toward the goal of complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," Thomas-Greenfield told reporters. North Korea - formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - has long accused the United States of having a hostile policy toward the Asian state and asserted that it has the right to develop weapons for self-defense. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said on Wednesday as the Security Council met over North Korea's latest missile launch. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States has offered to meet North Korea without preconditions and made clear that Washington has no hostile intent toward Pyongyang, the U.S. KCNA via REUTERS reuters_tickers This content was published on Octo23:17 Octo23:17 FILE PHOTO: A combination of pictures shows a new submarine-launched ballistic missile during a test in this undated photo released on Octoby North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).