‘Don’t trust Kim’: Defector’s warning to US President Donald Trump over North Korea’s lead
A NORTH Korean defector has told US President Donald Trump not to trust the secretive country’s leader Kim Jong-un and his apparent willingness to discuss “denuclearisation”.
By CIARAN MCGRATH
Express.co.uk
Sun, Apr 22, 2018
Na Min-hee, who now lives in South Korea, was among hundreds of young performers at a massive parade in Pyongyang in 2010 marking Kim’s debut as heir to his father Kim Jong-il – and she urged Mr Trump not to be taken in.
Her warning came as Kim prepares to travel to the Demilitarised Zone for a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday which will pave the way for an historic summit with Mr Trump himself, possibly as early as next month.
She said: “I hope Trump does not waver from his previous position on North Korea. The country is not changing.
“I hope he will remember that Kim Jong-un is a criminal violating the human rights of the North Korean people.
“North Korea is a wasteland of human rights and it is so disappointing that Kim is being taken seriously.”
Mr Trump and Kim traded insults for months after the US leader’s 2016 election victory, so it was a major shock when he revealed he was prepared to meet his much-ridiculed counterpart.
However, Na questioned Kim’s sincerity, suggesting that he was simply playing for time as economic pressure increased on his country following the imposition of tough international sanctions.
She explained: “Kim is just trying to find a way out of the dilemmas he’s facing right now.
“There is no genuine intent to negotiate. He wants to buy time for his nuclear programme.
“For my whole life, his father, Kim Jong-il, and now Kim Jong-un have not been interested in any real change.
“That would only lead to the demise of him and his regime.
“North Koreans are being told that these summits are only taking place because the US is afraid of the country’s nuclear weapons.
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