North Korea has warned that it could restart building up its nuclear arsenal if the US fails to remove its sanctions against the country.The warning came in a foreign ministry statement issued by Pyongyang on Friday under the name of the director of the ministry’s Institute for American Studies, insisting that "improvement of relations and sanctions is incompatible."
The ministry further emphasized that North Korea could bring back its "pyongjin" policy of simultaneously pursuing nuclear weapons alongside economic development if the US fails to revise its position on the issue.
Pyongyang has accused the US of reneging on it commitments made by North Korean leader Kim
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...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
and American President Donald Trump
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at their June summit in Singapore to work towards a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, without defining how and when the process would occur.
Earlier on Friday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed in an interview with Fox News of his plans to talk next week with his North Korean counterpart, apparently referring to senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol.