North Korea may suspend nuclear talks with US.
Fri Mar 15, 2019 09:53:am World
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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 quoted a senior diplomat as saying. Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui blamed top U.S. officials for the breakdown of last month's summit in Hanoi between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, According to the press:
"We have no intention to yield to the U.S. demands (at the Hanoi summit) in any form, nor are we willing to engage in negotiations of this kind," Choe told reporters in the North Korean capital.U.S. 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", Kim is set to make an official announcement soon on his position on the denuclearisation talks with the United States and the North's further actions, it added. Choe said Washington threw away a golden opportunity at the summit and warned that Kim might rethink a moratorium on missile launches and nuclear tests. "I want to make it clear that the gangster-like stand of the U.S. will eventually put the situation in danger, Personal relations between the two supreme leaders are still good and the chemistry is mysteriously wonderful." South Korea, which has an ambitious agenda of engagement with North Korea that is dependent on Pyongyang and Washington resolving at least some of their differences, said it was too early to tell what Choe's comments might mean.
"We have no intention to yield to the U.S. demands (at the Hanoi summit) in any form, nor are we willing to engage in negotiations of this kind," Choe told reporters in the North Korean capital.U.S. 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", Kim is set to make an official announcement soon on his position on the denuclearisation talks with the United States and the North's further actions, it added. Choe said Washington threw away a golden opportunity at the summit and warned that Kim might rethink a moratorium on missile launches and nuclear tests. "I want to make it clear that the gangster-like stand of the U.S. will eventually put the situation in danger, Personal relations between the two supreme leaders are still good and the chemistry is mysteriously wonderful." South Korea, which has an ambitious agenda of engagement with North Korea that is dependent on Pyongyang and Washington resolving at least some of their differences, said it was too early to tell what Choe's comments might mean.
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