The Western media misinterpreted and ignored key parts of a recent North Korean statement on negotiating with the US about its nuclear program, says a commentary on Johns Hopkins University 38 North website.
The August 9 editor’s column on the respected site dedicated to analysis on North Korea says that Pyongyang hasn’t changed its previous position on nukes. It hasn’t ruled out negotiating. It will still come to the table if the US removes its “hostile policy and nuclear threat” against the DPRK. If true, the latest hullabaloo about imminent war with North Korea may be a wash.
The error, according to 38 North, lies in an inept English translation of a statement made by North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho at the ASEAN Regional Forum meeting on July 26.
The English translation was: “We will, under no circumstances, put the nukes and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table. Neither shall we flinch even an inch from the road to bolstering up the nuclear forces chosen by ourselves, unless the hostile policy and nuclear threat of the US against the DPRK are fundamentally eliminated.”
38 North says the splitting of the sentences raises several questions as to what was covered under the qualifier of “unless” the hostile policy is removed. But 38 North says the answer can be found in the Korean-language version in which the formula was presented as one sentence, not two.
The Korean version reads: “Unless the hostile policy and nuclear threat of the US against the DPRK are fundamentally eliminated, we, under no circumstances, will put the nukes and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table and will not flinch even an inch away from our path of strengthening of nuclear forces, which is chosen by ourselves.”
This statement in Korean is said to merely repeat an earlier statement by Kim Jong-un on July 4 and one by the North Korean government on August 7 which says the only way Pyongyang will put its WMD programs on the table is if the US threat to their country ends.
38 North says this is a very different position than the one described in Western media reports.
“The media cherry-picked a part of what the North Koreans were saying in order to write a sensational story,” the 38 North column said. It said such misreporting is especially dangerous given the escalating crisis between Washington and Pyongyang.
Who cares? Trump will nuke China and bring Kim to his knee
n without China US cant survive
Wet dreams of a psychopath, no doubt
Peace, peace, peace !
It may not be Kim alone that will bear the brut China and Russia could equally be , it happened before .
Most of people does not like USA and their political rule USA wants to be king in the world but it’s their dreams only I really not Like USA political rule
China says, "if Japan versus China wars breaks out, the US will benefit". Well, on the other hands, if wars breaks out between North Korea versus the US, of course, if the US conquer the DPRK, the loser will be China and Russia, so, both of them will now allow that to happen but the US together with their allies are doing all it can to contain China in the South China Sea for it is already in China’s constitution that the whole south China sea are theirs and they have no plans to ammend it.
Kin Lun Wong. Lol
Its true that some politicians were using and twisting news and feeding the public false news. They already have an outcome a stage drama. Wise and God fearing leader will know the difference
You obviously don’t have a clue. China is the dominator as a world nuclear super power. They just choose not to shoot off their mouth like certain other countries.
Romans 14:11
It is written:
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”
Jesus Christ is the Lord.
Bible says, Nation will arise against Nation,
When God says, it will happen,
But He will protect those who return and run to Him
Amen
Are you insane or just completely stupid? Nuke China? The problem is with North Korea not China!
John Myer , typical left wing idiot
Lol… Dude you clearly don’t know what you are saying.
A war in the Korean Peninsula is the surest way of slowing China’s growth and stopping it from supplanting the US as the world’s largest economy.
The article is a perfect example of communist’s demagogy: instead of the discussing the nature of phenomena – to discuss one small element and to create an elephant from the fly.
And, again, the real issue is the nature of the regimes like Stalin/Hitler/Mussolini/Mao/Castro/Kim/Maduro/Putin and other dictatorships, the regimes that have opportunity to eliminate the current civilization of the Planet and must be wiped from historical map ASAP.
I’m pretty shore that there is going to be no hostility because of poor translation
It would be of benefit to you if you learnt the meaning of the phrase, fake news.
Leave Nokor alone & donor trigger their nuclear brain president. Instead send him to psychiatrist.�
Are sure
i mr. ali akbar chunnu from bangladesh i like alsochina and south korea ok
dont move north korea
Dumbest statement of the month so far. You are an idiot.
This time around,NUCLEAR WAR is going to start from FALSE MEDIA REPORTING from the west.It happened to Iraq on the FALSE REPORTING of the existence of WMD.
usa is a cancer in this earth.