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Pyongyang considering halting talks with US, restarting nuclear tests: North Korean diplomat
- The senior official blamed the US for talks breaking down at last month’s Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, which ended in disagreement
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North Korea is considering suspending talks with the United States and may rethink a ban on missile and nuclear tests unless Washington makes concessions, news reports from Pyongyang on Friday quoted a senior diplomat as saying.
Choe Son-hui, North Korea’s foreign vice-minister, blamed top US officials for the breakdown of last month’s summit in Hanoi between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
“We have no intention to yield to the US demands (at the Hanoi summit) in any form, nor are we willing to engage in negotiations of this kind,” Russia’s TASS news agency quoted Choe as telling reporters in the North Korean capital.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton “created the atmosphere of hostility and mistrust and, therefore, obstructed the constructive effort for negotiations between the supreme leaders of North Korea and the United States”, TASS quoted Choe as saying.
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Kim is set to make an official announcement soon on his position regarding the denuclearisation talks with the United States and the North’s further actions, it added, citing Choe.
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