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U.S. President Joe Biden has no intentions to meet Kim Jong Un: White House

White House press secretary Jen Psaki stated that President Joe Biden's approach is completely different and it is not his intention to meet Kim Jong Un.

Tuesday, 30th March 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden

Asked whether Biden's diplomatic approach to North Korea 'sits with President Kim Jong Un' as former President Donald Trump would include, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said: 'I think his approach will be completely different. and that is not his intention. ”

Last week, North Korea launched a new kind of tactical short-range ballistic missile, prompting Washington to request a meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions committee, which criticized the test.

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Pyongyang is banned by the UN resolutions from testing ballistic missiles and has previously been slapped with tough international sanctions to prevent it from developing rockets that can be equipped with nuclear warheads.

On Thursday, Biden said the US remains open to diplomacy with North Korea despite the tests, but warned that there would be answers if Pyongyang escalated the matter.

North Korea said on Saturday that the Biden government had taken a wrong first step and displayed "deep-seated hostility" by criticizing what it called a self-defence missile test.

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Trump had three sensational meetings with Kim and exchanged a series of letters, but relations later became icy and the nuclear-armed state said it would not engage further unless the US abandoned its hostile policies.

Meanwhile, Pyongyang shamelessly branded South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday after criticizing last week's mission tests by North Korea.

After Pyongyang called Thursday 'new tactical guided missiles', Moon said in a speech that "actions"

according to Yonhap, a news agency, it is difficult to make the mood for dialogue difficult.

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Moon also acknowledged that "people are very concerned" about the launch of North Korea's missiles, and called for more dialogue between Washington, Pyongyang and Seoul.

Kim Yo Jong - the influential sister of the North Korean ruler - called Moon a "parrot raised by the United States" and accused him of "shamelessness" in a statement published by state news agency KCNA on Tuesday.

"Such illogical and shameless behaviour on the part of South Korea is exactly the same as the gangster-like logic of the USA to self-defence as a violation of UN 'resolutions' and' threats' to the international community, 'Kim Yo Jong is quoted as saying.