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Donald Trump sent Kim Jong-un a letter offering help in fighting COVID-19, says North Korean leader’s sister

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Updated: March 22nd, 2020, 11:13 IST
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Seoul: US President Donald Trump has sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, offering help with Pyongyang’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the latter’s sister said Sunday.

The letter is a ‘a good example showing the special and firm personal relations’ between Trump and Kim, said Kim Yo-jong, the first vice department director of the Central Committee of the North’s Workers’ Party, in a statement carried by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), reports the Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency.

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“We regard it as a good judgment and proper action for the US President to make efforts to keep the good relations he had with our Chairman by sending a personal letter again at a time as now when big difficulties and challenges lie in the way of developing the bilateral relations, and think that this should be highly estimated,” she said.

“In the letter, he also explained his plan to propel the relations between the two countries of North Korea and the US and expressed his intent to render cooperation in the anti-epidemic work, saying that he was impressed by the efforts made by the Chairman to defend his people from the serious threat of the epidemic,” Kim Yo-jong added.

North Korea has not reported a single coronavirus case, but was widely suspected to be covering up an outbreak.

The regime has tightened its borders and enforced tough quarantine measures on its people, according to state media.

Relations between Washington and Pyongyang have come to a standstill due to a deadlock in denuclearization negotiations following the collapse of Trump and Kim Jong-un’s second summit in Vietnam in February 2019, said the Yonhap News Agency.

Kim Jong-un had set an end-of-year deadline for the US to show flexibility in their negotiations, but 2019 passed without progress and a warning from the North Korean leader of a soon-to-come “new strategic weapon”.

Still, the leaders have appeared to maintain their warm personal relations, and in January, Trump sent a letter to Kim Jong-un to congratulate him on his birthday.

“In the personal letter, President Trump said he was glad to hear that his congratulations to Chairman on his birthday was correctly conveyed, and wished the family of the Chairman and our people wellbeing,” Kim Yo-jong said in the Sunday letter.

“Saying that he values his relations with Chairman Kim Jong-un, President Trump said that there were difficulties in letting his thoughts known because communications were not made often recently.

“He expressed his willingness to keep in close touch with the Chairman in the future.”

The North Korean leader also “mentioned his special personal relations with President Trump again and appreciated the personal letter”, she said.

Kim Yo-jong, however, cautioned against misjudging the two countries’ ties based only on the personal relations of the two leaders.

“As they are the close relations between the two men representing the two countries, they would have positive impact but nobody knows how much the personal relations would change and lead the prospective relations between the two countries, and it is not something good to make hasty conclusion or be optimistic about it,” Yonhap News Agency quoted her as saying in the letter.

“If impartiality and balance are not provided and unilateral and greedy intention is not taken away, the bilateral relations will continue to aggravate,” she warned.

Adding that it is her personal opinion, Kim Yo-jong suggested that dialogue can only be restored when “the equilibrium is kept dynamically and morally and justice ensured between the two countries, not merely by the personal letter between the two leaders”.

She also extended ‘sincere gratitude’ to Trump for sending ‘his invariable faith’ to Kim Jong-un.

The statement came a day after the North fired two short-range projectiles toward the East Sea in its third such weapons test so far this year.

IANS

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