▲ This file image, captured from Korean Central Television in January 2020, shows U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un posing for a photo during their meeting in the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)

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N.K. leader says past negotiations with U.S. only confirmed hostile policy against Pyongyang

By Park Boram

SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said that his country went to every length in negotiations with the United States, but it only confirmed Washington's unwavering hostile policy toward Pyongyang, the North's state media said Friday.

Kim made the remarks during a speech at the opening ceremony of an arms exhibition titled "Defense Development-2024," in Pyongyang the previous day, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

"We have already gone to every length in negotiations with the U.S., and what was certain from the outcome was ... the unchanging invasive and hostile policy toward North Korea," Kim noted in the speech.

He said the "extreme situation" on the Korean Peninsula is not the result of a "misunderstanding" of the other side, apparently referring to the U.S. He said that achieving the highest level of defense capability to surpass the enemy is the only way to maintain peace.

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