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Kim Jong-un warns of change in direction on denuclearisation - Published North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said he is committed to denuclearisation, but warned he will change course if the US continues its sanctions. He made the remarks during his closely-watched annual New Year's address. Last year's speech set the country on an unprecedented path of international diplomacy with South Korea and the US. Mr Kim met US President Donald Trump to discuss denuclearisation in June 2018 but with few results so far. Last year's rapprochement came after a turbulent 2017 marked by North Korea testing missiles that could reach the US mainland and an escalation in rhetoric between Pyongyang and Washington with both sides trading insults and threats of nuclear destruction. The annual New Year's address is a tradition Mr Kim picked up from his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, founder of the communist country. The speech is aimed primarily at a domestic audience and, as in previous years, focused largely on the economy - but international observers scan every line for clues to Pyongyang's international agenda as well. In this year's speech, broadcast on state television early on Tuesday, Mr Kim said, "if the US does not keep its promise made in front of the whole world... and insists on sanctions and pressures on our republic, we may be left with no choice but to consider a new way to safeguard our sovereignty and interests". The BBC's Laura Bicker in Seoul says this could mean that North Korea is waiting for the US to act in 2019 and unless it does, the current pause on nuclear weapons testing could be over. North Korea is subject to various sets of United Nations Security Council sanctions related to its banned nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programmes. Mr Kim said that North Korea had already pledged not to make, use or spread nuclear weapons and had taken concrete steps to implement this. He also said he was ready to meet Mr Trump again at any time. "The tone was what many had expected," Oliver Hotham of news site NK News, told the BBC. "In all, a speech that boosts his standing at home on key issues while sending a conciliatory but firm message to the US, all the while continuing to woo Seoul with the prospects of renewed cooperation." It was in last year's New Year's message that Mr Kim announced North Korea would take part in the Winter Olympics hosted by the South, which led to a thaw in relations. After a flurry of diplomatic activity, in April Kim Jong-un met South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a summit at the inter-Korean border. They met twice more after that, but the most historic summit of 2018 was the North Korean leader's meeting with US President Donald Trump in Singapore in June. In the first meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting US president, the two signed a vaguely-phrased agreement to improve ties and work towards denuclearisation. Since the Trump-Kim summit though, less progress has been made than at least optimists had been hoping for. While the North has stopped missile and nuclear testing, there's been little indication that Pyongyang is working towards complete and verifiable denuclearisation as the US has called upon it to do. The North has dismantled some testing facilities but there are allegations it is continuing its weapons programme. President Trump has said he expects a second summit to take place as early as February, but there has been no confirmation yet. There are also plans for Kim Jong-un to travel to the South's capital Seoul for another inter-Korean summit but again, those plans have not been confirmed yet.
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डोनल्ड ट्रम्पले पत्रमा के लेखे जुन पढेर किम जङ-अन दङ्ग परे उत्तर कोरियाका नेता किम जङ-अन अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनल्ड ट्रम्पले उनलाई पठाएको चिठी पढेर निकै सन्तुष्ट भएको त्यहाँको सरकारी सञ्चारमाध्यमले जनाएका छन्। गत साता वाशिङ्टन पुगेर ट्रम्पलाई भेटेका उनका निकट सहयोगीको हातमा ट्रम्पले सो चिठी पठाएका थिए। चिठीमा भएका विषयवस्तुबारे प्रस्ट पारिएको छैन। तर उत्तर कोरियाली सरकारी समाचारसंस्था केसीएनएले यसबारे दिएको समाचारबाट त्यसको केही सङ्केत मिल्न सक्छ। "किम जङ-अनले राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पको सकारात्मक सोचाइमा विश्वास भएको बताएका छन्। साथै संयमतापूर्वक र असल नियतका साथ पर्खँदै, अनि सँगसँगै दुई देशले हासिल गर्नुपर्ने लक्ष्यतर्फ अघि बढ्ने बताएका छन्," केसीएनएले उल्लेख गरेको छ। सो रिपोर्टमा किमले 'दोस्रो शिखर सम्मेलनका लागि प्रदर्शन गरेको अस्वाभाविक दृढता एवम् इच्छाशक्तिका निम्ति राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पको उच्च प्रशंसा' गरेको जनाइएको छ। किमका यी भनाइ उनले नयाँ वर्षको बेला गरेको सम्बोधनभन्दा निकै भिन्न छन्। त्यतिखेर उनले अमेरिकाले उनको देशविरुद्ध आर्थिक प्रतिबन्ध जारी राखेमा उत्तर कोरियाले अर्कै बाटो समात्न सक्ने चेतावनी दिएका थिए। के होला दोस्रो भेटमा? दुवै नेताले अर्को महिना दोस्रो शिखर सम्मेलनको योजना बनाइरहेको ह्वाइट हाउसले जनाएको छ। कोरियाली प्राय:द्वीपको परमाणुनिरस्त्रीकरणबारे कुराकानी गर्न उनीहरूले गत जुन महिनामा ऐतिहासिक पहिलो शिखर बैठकमा भाग लिएका थिए। त्यसयता उक्त मुद्दामा खासै प्रगति भएको छैन। गत वर्षको सम्बन्ध सुधार र सिङ्गापुर सम्मेलनभन्दा पहिले सन् २०१७ दुवै देशका निम्ति तनावपूर्ण थियो। उत्तर कोरियाले अमेरिकी मूलभूमिसम्म प्रहार गर्न सक्ने क्षेप्यास्त्रहरू परीक्षण गर्यो। दुवै पक्ष आरोप प्रत्यारोपमा मात्रै उत्रिएनन्, उनीहरूले एकअर्कालाई परमाणु विनाशको धम्की पनि दिए। सिङ्गापुरको सम्मेलनमा दुवै पक्षले परमाणुनिरस्त्रीकरणबारे साधारण सहमति गरेका थिए। तर त्यसयता उत्तर कोरियाले उसका परमाणुक्षमताबारे विस्तृत विवरण उपलब्ध गराएको छैन र ऊविरुद्ध अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय प्रतिबन्ध कायमै छन्। तर पछिल्ला दिनहरूमा दोस्रो शिखर बैठकको तयारीका सन्दर्भमा शृङ्खलाबद्ध कूटनीतिक गतिविधि भइरहेका छन्। सिङ्गापुर सम्मेलनको पूर्वसन्ध्यामा जस्तै दोस्रो सम्मेलनको सँघारमा पनि किम जङ-अनले चीन पुगेर राष्ट्रपति सी जिन्पिङलाई भेटेका छन्। साथै उनका प्रमुख वार्ताकार किम योङ-चोलले राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पलाई भेटेका छन्। दोस्रो भेटका लागि स्थान तोकिएको छैन तर जानकारहरूले भियतनाम रोजिन सक्ने बताएका छन्। साथै दोस्रो भेटको विस्तृत एजेन्डा पनि लगभग परमाणुनिरस्त्रीकरणमै केन्द्रित हुने ठानिएको छ। अमेरिका र उत्तर कोरियाबीच परमाणुनिरस्त्रीकरण तथा आर्थिक प्रतिबन्धको अन्त्यमध्ये कुन पहिला गर्ने भन्नेबारे मतभेद छन्। साथै प्योङ्याङमाथि ती आर्थिक प्रतिबन्धहरू पटकपटक छल्न खोजेको आरोप पनि लागेका छन्।