...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
said Thursday it will ignore attempts by the US to contact it, the South's Yonhap news agency reported, hours before President Joe
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...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...'s top envoys were to hold talks in Seoul.The comments from the North's first vice foreign minister Choe Son Hui came with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin in the South for the second leg of an Asian tour to bolster a united front against the nuclear-armed North and an increasingly assertive China.
The pair have repeatedly called for the "complete denuclearisation of North Korea" on their trip, which began in Japan.
There could be no contact nor dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang "until the US withdraws its hostile DPRK policy", Yonhap cited Choe as saying in a statement carried by state media, referring to the North by its official name.
"Therefore, we will continue to ignore such attempts by the US in the future," she added.