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Agence France-Presse

North Korea has halted talks with the United States until the results of the US presidential election in November are known, Russia’s ambassador to Pyongyang told reporters on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump has met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un three times and voiced admiration for him, although hopes of striking a comprehensive agreement have faded.
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“As for dialogue with Washington, which they deem to be pointless for now, it seems to have been postponed at least until after the US presidential election,” Ambassdaor Alexander Matsegora told Interfax news agency in an interview.
“They shall see what happens next,” he said.


North Korea has fired off a series of rockets as it demands concessions from the Trump administration, which says that international sanctions should remain until the regime fully denuclearises.
Matsegora said he expects dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang to eventually resume, adding Russia was unhappy with the suspension of talks that could increase tension in the border region.
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“Clearly, Moscow cannot be happy with the deep-freeze in the US-North Korean dialogue, which is fraught with an escalation of tensions in the region adjacent to our Far Eastern border,” he said.
The ambassador also criticised US sanctions on North Korea which he said were hindering supplies of crucial medical equipment to Pyongyang.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in March called for sanctions relief during the coronavirus pandemic, telling G20 leaders it was a matter “of life and death”.
Matsegora said sanctions were blocking the supply of medications and medical equipment to North Korea and Washington was “hunting down anyone who has at least some trade with North Korea, even if completely harmless things are supplied.”


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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Photo: EPA

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Alejandro Cao de Benós, a special delegate to North Korea’s Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, holds a pin of the country’s first supreme leader, Kim Il-sung. Photo: AFP

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA - AUGUST 19: General view of Pyongyang Sci-Tech Complex on August 19, 2018 in Pyongyang, North Korea. Despite ongoing international negotiations aimed at easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea remains the most isolated and secretive nation on earth. Since it's formation in 1948 the country has been led by the Kim dynasty, a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership descended from the country's first leader, Kim Il-sung followed by Kim Jong-il and grandson and current leader, Kim Jong-un. Although major hostilities ceased with the signing of the Armistice in 1953, the two Koreas have remained technically at war and the demilitarised zone along the border continues to be the most fortified border in the world. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Alejandro Cao de Bens adjusts the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) sign at Pyongyang Cafe, a small space on the ground floor of an apartment building near TarragonaÕs port, Spain, February 09, 2020.[17MAY2020 FEATURE POST MAGAZINE] CREDIT: Iris Humm  / Bloomberg

In this Friday, May 1, 2020, photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits a fertilizer factory in South Pyongan, near Pyongyang, North Korea. Kim made his first public appearance in 20 days as he celebrated the completion of the fertilizer factory, state media said Saturday, May 2, 2020, ending an absence that had triggered global rumors that he may be seriously ill. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

A square in Pyongyang is decorated with flowers on April 8, 2020, a day before the 27th anniversary of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's assumption of the chairmanship of the National Defense Commission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Daniel BOSQUE -  Special delegate for North Korea's Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Alejandro Cao de Benos poses in his bar "Pyongyangcafe" dedicated to friends of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on July 30, 2016 in Tarragona.Isolated in the international community, North Korea now has a modest ally on the Spanish coast. The Pyongyang Cafe, a small bar in Tarragona founded to promote the controversial socialist regime of Kim Jong-Un. / AFP / JOSEP LAGO        (Photo credit should read JOSEP LAGO/AFP via Getty Images)[17MAY2020 FEATURE POST MAGAZINE]CREDIT: AFP

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un waves while attending a torchlight gala in 2016. Photo: STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP

This screen grab image taken from North Korean broadcaster KCTV on September 3, 2017 shows the North's favourite newsreader Ri Chun-Hee announcing, from an unknown location, the news that the country had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. North Korea declared itself a thermonuclear power on September 3, 2017, after carrying out a sixth nuclear test more powerful than any it has previously detonated, presenting President Donald Trump with a potent challenge. Ri Chun-Hee has previously told her loyal viewers of the deaths of the country's founder Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il, several of the nuclear tests that have seen it subjected to multiple rounds of United Nations sanctions. / AFP PHOTO / KCTV / Handout / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / KCTV" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

FILE - In this March 2, 2019, file photo, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam. In her first known official statement, Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, leveled diatribes and insults on South Korea for protesting over her country's latest live-fire exercises. Believed to be in her early 30s, Kim Yo Jong is in charge of propaganda affairs and has frequently appeared at her brother's major public events including summits with U.S. President Donald Trump and other regional leaders. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)

This picture taken on February 16, 2020 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on February 17, 2020 shows people standing in front of statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the Grand Monument on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang to celebrate the 78th anniversary of Kim Jong Il. - The anniversaries of the births and deaths of the two elder Kims are major holidays on the North Korean calendar, with February 16 celebrated as the Day of the Shining Star. (Photo by STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) / - South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. /

China calls for easing of United Nations sanctions on North Korea

Pyongyang says it no longer feels bound by a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile testing. Photo: Reuters

(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 05, 2019 Chinese Representative to the UN Zhang Jun takes part in a luncheon with the UN Security Council permanent representatives and US President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC. - A Chinese-Russian resolution aimed at easing international sanctions on North Korea is a "timely" step in the "right direction," China's UN ambassador Zhang Jun said January 3, 2020. His comments came only days after Pyongyang, deeply frustrated that those sanctions remain in place despite its suspension of nuclear and long-range missile testing, announced it no longer felt bound by the moratorium. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

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Kim Jong-un has met Donald Trump three times and they have held historic summits, but hopes of striking a comprehensive agreement have faded
Russia’s ambassador to Pyongyang said Kim’s regime now deemed further talks to be ‘pointless’ until the results of the election were known



Kim Jong-un has met Donald Trump three times and they have held historic summits, but hopes of striking a comprehensive agreement have faded.
