While Ri reprised familiar North Korean complaints about Washington's resistance to a "phased" approach to denuclearization under which North Korea would be rewarded as it took gradual steps, his statement appeared significant in that it did not reject unilateral denuclearization out of hand as Pyongyang has done in the past.
Aunque Ri repitió las conocidas quejas de Corea del Norte por la resistencia de Washington a una fórmula de desnuclearización “por fases” que recompense al país a medida que da pasos graduales, su declaración es importante, ya que no rechazó sin más una desnuclearización unilateral, tal como Pyongyang ha hecho en el pasado.