N. Korea Considering Whether To Resume Nuclear

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    North Korea is considering breaking off negotiations with the U.S. and resuming nuclear and missile tests, following last month's summit in Vietnam that ended early and without an agreement, a government official said.

    Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui told diplomats and reporters in Pyongyang on Friday that North Korea was disappointed with the outcome of negotiations between President Trump and Kim Jong Un, and that Kim would soon decide whether to end his country's voluntary moratorium on testing missiles and nuclear weapons.

    "We have no intention to yield to the U.S. demands [made at the summit in Hanoi] in any form, nor are we willing to engage in negotiations of this kind," Russia's TASS News Agency quoted Choe as saying.

    She blamed the U.S. for the stalemate at the Trump-Kim summit in February, saying Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton "created the atmosphere of hostility and mistrust," TASS reports.

    Read more https://www.npr.org/2019/03/15/7037...me-nuclear-missile-tests-amid-impasse-with-u-
     

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