Korea to halt N-talks till US hostilities end

But a spokesman at the North's foreign ministry said Washington's claims about another meeting was 'ungrounded'. 'We have no intention to hold such sickening negotiations as what happened this time before the US takes a substantial step to make complete and irreversible withdrawal of the hostile policy toward the DPRK,' he said using the acronyms of the North's official name. In a statement carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency, the spokesman warned that their 'dealings' may immediately end if the US sticks to its old playbook. 'The fate of the future DPRK-US dialogue depen-ds on the US attitude, and the end of this year is its deadline,' he added. In Stockholm, the nuclear-armed North's leading negotiator, Kim Myong Gil, blamed the US for not giving up their 'old attitude' which led to talks ending 'without any outcome'. But Washing-ton called the talks 'good discussions', saying the comments by Korea did not reflect the content or the spirit their eight-and-a-half-hour discussion. The US accepted host Sweden's invitation to resume talks in two weeks, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said. She added in a statement that the US 'previewed a number of new initiatives' that would allow progress on the statement reached in Singapore at the first Trump-Kim summit last year. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://www.coalindia.in/ActivityFeed/MyProfile/tabid/64/UserId/528999/language/en-US/Default.aspx

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