North Korea’s chief negotiator says discussions with the U.S. on Pyongyang’s nuclear program have broken down, but Washington says the two sides had “good discussions” that it intends to build on in two weeks.
The North Korean negotiator, Kim Miyong Gil, said Saturday’s talks in Stockholm broke down “entirely because the U.S. has not discarded its old stance and attitude.”
Speaking outside the North Korean embassy, he read a statement in Korean that a translator next to him read in English.
Diplomatic ties between the U.S. and North Korea have been in statis since the February breakdown of a second summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in Vietnam.
But State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said the North’s comments “do not reflect the content or the spirit” of the “good discussions” that took place.
