North Korea rejects a meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un as ‘nonsense’

NORTH Korea has labelled Donald Trump’s proposal to meet Kim Jong-Un as “nonsense” and a “useless gesture for the presidential election”.

An official from the repressive Asian country said the idea by the Republican nominee was simply a "kind of propaganda or advertisement" in his attempt to enter the White House.

Last week Mr Trump said he would spark a dramatic shift in US policy if he became president, saying he would have “no problem”, talking to the dictator.

The Current US strategy is to try and isolate Pyongyang, but it seems as though the real estate mogul’s attempt to change that have been thwarted.

So Se Pyong said: "It is up to the decision of my Supreme Leader whether he decides to meet or not, but I think his (Trump's) idea or talk is nonsense.”

North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva gave an interview to Reuters on his return from his country’s capital after attending the first ruling party congress in 36 years.

"It's for utilisation of the presidential election, that's all," he said. “A kind of a propaganda or advertisement.

"This is useless, just a gesture for the presidential election. There is no meaning, no sincerity."

So also said that as a candidate, Barack Obama had made unfulfilled campaign promises to meet the North Korean leader.

The country conducted a fourth nuclear test in January and launched a long-range rocket in February.

This triggered tougher international sanctions and the adoption of a more hardline position by the South Korean President, Park Geun-hye.

But the ambassador said his country was prepared to return to the six-party talks on its nuclear programme.

He said China and Russia backed the idea, but the United States and its allies South Korea and Japan have rejected it.

"As a responsible nuclear state ... we will never use them first," So said.

"If the United States use their nuclear weapons first, then we have to use also that one.

"If the United States gives up their hostile policies and changes their attitude, then we also (can) have relations as a normal country.”

South Korea dismissed a North Korean proposal for military talks yesterday as "a bogus peace offensive”.

They said it was formally rejecting the overture because it lacked a plan to end the North's nuclear programme going forward.

So said North Korea would not share nuclear technology with other countries.

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