A senior official suggested Kim Jong Un might end nuclear talks and resume missile tests, but Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo waved off the threat, tracykwilkinson and vicjkim report.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, in an undated photo released by the state-run news agency in 2017. One of his aides says Kim is considering breaking off nuclear talks with the Trump administration.
The Hanoi summit collapsed without an agreement and both leaders left empty-handed, leaving the two sides at an impasse despite the high-level engagement. "We have neither the intention to compromise with the U.S. in any form nor much less the desire or plan to conduct this kind of negotiation,” Choe said, according to the Associated Press.
Asked whether the personal attack would hurt his efforts to negotiate, Pompeo noted that North Korean state media had called him “gangster-like” after a visit to the capital, Pyongyang, in July. Choe repeated the barb Friday, describing the U.S. stance in Hanoi as “gangster-like.”
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