North Korea Slams U.S. ‘Gangster-Like’ Demands at Nuclear Talks
- Foreign ministry comments hours after U.S. secretary leaves
- Pompeo said two days of negotiations done in ‘good faith’
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North Korea slammed the U.S. position on denuclearization during two days of meetings with Mike Pompeo as “gangster-like,” hours after the secretary of state cited “good-faith negotiations” with his counterparts in Pyongyang.
A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman, in a lengthy English-language statement released by the state media outlet Korea Central News Agency, said the U.S. side had created “trouble” by issuing the same kind of proposals that past administrations had sought.