North Korea may stop talks with US

SEOUL: North Korea is considering suspending talks with the US and may rethink a ban on missile and nuclear tests unless Washington makes concessions, news reports from the North’s capital yesterday quoted a senior diplomat as saying.

Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui blamed top US officials for the breakdown of last month’s summit in Hanoi between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Russia’s TASS news agency and the Associated Press said.

“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,” TASS quoted Choe as telling reporters.

US Department of State representatives did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

| ANA