North Korean envoy rejects Donald Trump's proposal to meet Kim Jong-Un

Trump's proposal is a kind of propaganda or advertisement in his election race, a senior North Korean official said.

Geneva

: United States Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is a -"kind of propaganda or advertisement-" in his election race, a senior North Korean official said on Monday. Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with Reuters in New York last week, said he is willing to talk to the North Korean leader to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, proposing a major shift in US policy toward the isolated nation.

-"It is up to the decision of my Supreme Leader whether he decides to meet or not, but I think his (Trump's) idea or talk is nonsense,-" So Se Pyong, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, told Reuters on return from Pyongyang after attending the first ruling party congress in 36 years. -"It's for utilisation of the presidential election, that's all. A kind of a propaganda or advertisement,-" he said. -"This is useless, just a gesture for the presidential election.-"

-"There is no meaning, no sincerity,-" So added.

As a candidate, US President Barack Obama made unfulfilled campaign promises to meet the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), he said.

North Korea conducted a fourth nuclear test in January and launched a long-range rocket in February, triggering tougher international sanctions and the adoption of a more hardline position by South Korean President Park Geun-hye.

So, who is also North Korea's ambassador to the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament, reiterated that his country was prepared to return to stalled six-party talks on its nuclear programme. China and Russia backed the idea, but the United States and its allies South Korea and Japan reject it, he said. -"As a responsible nuclear state, we will never use them first,-" So said. -"If the United States use their nuclear weapons first, then we have to use also that one.-"

-"If the United States gives up their hostile policies and changes their attitude, then we also (can) have relations as a normal country,-" So said. -"To South Korea, we proposed high-level military talks but South Korea refused now.-"

South Korea dismissed on Monday a North Korean proposal for military talks as -"a bogus peace offensive-" and said it was formally rejecting the overture because it lacked a plan to end the North's nuclear programme. So said that North Korea would not share nuclear technology with other countries. -"As a responsible nuclear state, we keep and observe the obligations of non-proliferation of nuclear technology-".