{"id":27318,"date":"2020-06-12T10:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T05:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/stay-quiet-if-you-want-your-elections-to-go-smoothly-north-korea-warns-washington\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T05:13:42","slug":"stay-quiet-if-you-want-your-elections-to-go-smoothly-north-korea-warns-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27318","title":{"rendered":"Stay quiet if you want your elections to go smoothly: North Korea warns Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The statement comes after US State Department expressed disappointed at North Korea for suspending communication hotlines with South Korea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seoul<\/strong>: North Korea said on Thursday the United States has no standing to comment on inter-Korean affairs, and it is in Washington\u2019s interest to stay quiet if it wants the upcoming presidential election to go smoothly, state media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement comes after the U.S. State Department said it was disappointed at North Korea for suspending communication hotlines with South Korea on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the U.S. pokes its nose into others\u2019 affairs with careless remarks, far from minding its internal affairs, at a time when its political situation is in the worst-ever confusion, it may encounter an unpleasant thing hard to deal with,\u201d Kwon Jong Gun, director-general for U.S. affairs at North Korea\u2019s Foreign Ministry, said in comments carried by state news agency KCNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, rear center, attends a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in North Korea<\/em>
Photo Credit: AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The United States should \u201chold its tongue\u201d and address its own domestic problems unless it wants to \u201cexperience a hair-raiser,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt would be good not only for the U.S. interests but also for the easy holding of upcoming presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is unclear what North Korea would do to disrupt the election or cause problems for U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s re-election campaign, said James Kim, a research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf anything, there\u2019s a chance that provocation may even rally the country around the incumbent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a series of historic summits in 2018 and 2019 between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, little progress has been made in dismantling the North\u2019s nuclear weapons programme, and Pyongyang has expressed increasing frustration with Washington\u2019s refusal to ease sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea said on Tuesday it would sever hotlines with South Korea after days of lashing out at Seoul for not stopping defectors from sending leaflets and other material into the North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, South Korea said it would take legal action against two organisations that conduct such operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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