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North Korea to US: Don't Ignore Year-End Nuclear Talks Deadline

Reuters

   SEOUL - North Korea said Sunday that there hadbeen no progress
   inU.S.-North Korearelations andthathostilities that could lead to an
   exchange of fire hadcontinued, according to North Korea's state news
   agency KCNA.
   In a statement under the name of North Korea senior official Kim Yong
   Chol, KCNA said that it would beamistake for the United Statesto rely
   onU.S. President Donald Trump's and North Korean leader Kim
   JongUn's"close personal relations"andignore a year-end deadlinethat Kim
   set fordenuclearization talks.
   Kim Yong Chol was the nuclear talks envoy to the United States for the
   discussions between the two countries before the second summit between
   Trump and Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in February ended in failure.
   Kim Yong Chol said the United States hadbeen pressuring North Korea in
   a "more crafty and vicious way" instead ofheedingNorth Korea's call for
   Washington to adopt a new approach, adding that the United States
   hadbeen persistently pushing other countries to impose U.N. sanctions
   on North Korea.
   The statement camedays after North Korea asked South Korea to discuss
   removal of its facilities from the North's resort of Mount Kumgang, a
   key symbol of cooperation that Pyongyang recently criticized as
   "shabby" and "capitalist."
   North Korea on Friday sent notices to the South's Unification Ministry,
   which handles issues between the two sides, and Hyundai Group, whose
   affiliate Hyundai Asan Corp.built the resort facilities, asking for
   their demolition and seeking discussion through the exchange of
   documents, the ministry said.

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