Shut it, Don, you get no credit – N. Korea

NORTH KOREA claims President Trump played no part in its recent decision to open peace talks with longtime enemies.

Instead, Pyongyang asserted Sunday that the Trump administration was “misleading” the public by insisting it compelled North Korea to go to the negotiating table.

The bold statement comes weeks before North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is set to have a historic sitdown with Trump.

The White House and some Republican lawmakers have argued it was Trump’s brazen threats against North Korea, as well as rounds of sanctions, that brought the isolated country to the talks. But the hermetic nation argued the victory lap was unmerited — and killing the mood.

“The U.S. is deliberately provoking the DPRK at the time when the situation on the Korean Peninsula is moving toward peace and reconciliation,” said a Foreign Ministry spokesman, referring to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in remarks carried by state-run media.