[THEWEEK] North Korean official news agency KCNA reported on Saturday that the country used "a relevant channel" to send Washington a proposal on Friday, Rooters reports.However,
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the floated deal North Korea will halt its nuclear tests if the U.S. stops conducting military drills with South Korea is similar to others made by Pyongyang before. They never stick, Rooters notes. North Korea calls its goal of creating a nuclear arsenal its "sacred sword" in 2012, the country agreed to halt nuclear tests in exchange for an easing of tensions with the U.S. But Pyongyang called off the deal two months later.
For its part, the U.S. State Department denounced the "proposal" as something more aggressive.
"The DPRK statement that inappropriately links routine U.S.-(South Korea) exercises to the possibility of a nuclear test by North Korea is an implicit threat," spokeswoman Jen Psaki
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said.