North Korea expressed a desire to pursue a peace treaty with the U.S. It also wants to be able to freely pursue its nuclear weapons development program simultaneously. For the U.S., the two primary terms of the proposal are mutually exclusive. In other words, North Korea can’t have its cake and eat it too. But the communist country gave it a
N. Korea Asks US For Peace Treaty, US Has ‘No Interest’
“With regard to the North Korean statement suggesting we enter into peace treaty discussions, we have no interest in entering into any such discussions.”