North Korea accuses the United States of acting as a "gangster" and endangering denuclearization

The latest high-level talks between North Korea and the United States have not yielded the expected results.

At least according to Pyongyang

The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, made a trip to This week, the Asian country continued negotiations on denuclearization initiated at the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong – one in Singapore, and assured at the end of their journey that they had concluded agreements on fundamental issues . 19659007] North Korea, however, has now given another vision of what has happened: it accused the United States of making claims with "the gangster mentality " and has warned that Pompeo's trip was not reinforcing

] to a dangerous situation in which our unswerving desire for denuclearization could falter, instead of consolidating trust between the Democratic Republic of Korea (the official name of North Korea) and the United States, "said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement issued by the North Korean agency KCNA

According to the North Korean regime, Washington" misinterpreted "his goodwill and his patience

Two United tries to force us with the old methods used by previous governments will not get us anywhere. "

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In the statement issued by KCNA, the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry considered " disturbing " the attitude of the US delegation led by Pompeo.

According to Pyongyang, the Americans acted in spirit " from the Singapore summit, putting" unilateral pressure "on the Asian country to abandon its nuclear weapons." We believed that the United States would come with a constructive idea, thinking that we could gain something in return, "Regrets the statement, while reiterating Pyongyang's demand that disarmament be done gradually

" Great Progress "

] During his visit, Pompeo did not meet the North Korean leader, but with Kim Yong-chol, was considering his right hand.

In his subsequent statements, the US Secretary of State n & # 39; He did not give much details but assured that a timetable had been worked out in detail for the denuclearization including the destruction of a test engine installation. missiles.

"There are complicated problems but we have progressed on almost all the central problems, in some of them"

After the Singapore summit, where the states States have offered " guarantees of e security "to North Korea and promised to stop its maneuvers with South Korea in the region, President Trump assured that Pyongyang was no longer a nuclear threat.

However, since then, Trump has renewed sanctions against North Korea and the country's intelligence services. They pointed out that there is evidence that North Korea continues to advance its nuclear missile program

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A spokesman for the State Department said that Pompeo was "firm" in the denuclearization, as well as in the security guarantees and other important requests from the United States, such as the repatriation of the remains of the American personnel killed in the Korean War .

An indication of the difficulty of the talks could be seen in the statements made to the press by the official Kim Yong-chol after the first day of negotiations

Kim jokingly suggested that Pompeo He may not have slept well the first night in Pyongyang after the discussions they had had the day before. . Pompeo, then, installs: "Let me say that I slept well".