In an interview with the BBC, a former high-level North Korean diplomat who defected last November suggested nothing would thrill dictator Kim Jong Un more than for Donald Trump to once again ascend to the Oval Office.
Speaking with the BBC's Jean McKenzie, Ri Il Kyu stated that the North Korean strongman sees an opportunity to expand his nuclear program and that the public stance by the North Korean government that it doesn't care who wins the U.S. election in November is a ruse.
According to the report, Il Kyu explained that that "North Korea still views Mr. Trump as someone it can negotiate with over its nuclear weapons program, despite talks between him and Kim Jong Un breaking down in 2019."
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The plan, he asserts, is to get Trump to accept a pitch for nuclear freeze in an effort to get sanctions lifted, but that Kim Jong Un has no intention of actually follow through on his part of the deal.
The BBC report notes, "... Pyongyang would not negotiate in good faith. Agreeing to freeze its nuclear programme 'would be a ploy, 100% deception', he says, adding that this was therefore a 'dangerous approach' which would 'only lead to the strengthening of North Korea'."
“North Korea understands that the only path to its survival, the only way to eliminate the threat of invasion and develop its economy, is to normalize relations with the United States," Il Kyu explained.
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