North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's public moves to stop pursuing eventual unification with the South is rooted in a 'desperate' effort to control the flow of information in country, according to a Biden administration diplomat.The remark comes amid decades-high tensions on the Korean Peninsula, exacerbated by the North's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, its first successful spy satellite launch, and the South's military exercises with U.S. forces.
Special Envoy for North Korean human rights Julie Turner said Tuesday at a form hosted by the Korea Society non-profit organization.Yet Turner added Washington is prepared to engage with North Korea on human rights in a 'transparent and outcome-oriented discussion' that would include the U.S.'s own human rights record and efforts the country is taking to improve it.A formal peace treaty between Seoul and Pyongyang has never been signed, despite the end of open hostilities in 1953.
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