Overview

• Kim Jong Un said he would consider talks if the United States accepts peaceful coexistence and abandons denuclearization as a precondition, according to KCNA.
• He reiterated that North Korea will never relinquish its nuclear weapons.
• Kim asserted that international sanctions have strengthened the country’s resilience rather than weakened it.
• The United States continues to insist on complete denuclearization, and bilateral talks have been frozen since the failed 2019 summit.
• Reporting also links North Korea to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, stating Pyongyang has supplied weapons and even troops.