North Korea Wants Peace Treaty Before Denuclearization

Considering that the North Koreans will never fully denuclearize this is why they will never back away from demanding a peace treaty with the US first:

North Korea criticized the top U.S. nuclear envoy Friday for urging it again to denuclearize first for a peace treaty.

The North’s foreign ministry reiterated a call for immediate talks on replacing the 1953 Armistice Agreement with a peace treaty.

It was countering remarks by Sung Kim, special representative for North Korea policy, earlier this week at a Washington forum.

Speaking on the North’s demand for a peace treaty, Kim accused Pyongyang of having “the order wrong.”

“Before we can get to a peace mechanism to replace the armistice, I think we need to make significant progress on the central issue of denuclearization,” he said.  [Yonhap]

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