North Korea slammed the United States for making “rapacious” demands during critical denuclearisation talks on Saturday, after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had earlier described them as “productive”.
The North’s foreign ministry said the “extremely regrettable” US attitude during the meeting violated the spirit of the agreement reached between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump last month at their historic summit in Singapore.
“The US attitude and positions at the high-level talks on Friday and Saturday were extremely regrettable,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
It lashed out at the US for its “unilateral and rapacious demands for denuclearisation”.
This came just hours after Pompeo had characterised the meeting as a success, but critically without giving many new details as to how North Korea would honour its commitment to “denuclearise” in exchange for US security guarantees.
“These are complicated issues, but we made progress on almost all of the central issues, some places a great deal of progress, other places there’s still more work to be done,” he said.