North Korea Walks Away From Nuclear Talks With United States

ABC News Online: North Korea walks away from nuclear talks with United States, blaming 'brutal and inhumane' sanctions

North Korea has walked away from nuclear talks with the United States, saying a 2019 year-end deadline for the talks had been ignored so it no longer felt bound by commitments, which included a halt to its nuclear testing and the firing of inter-continental ballistic missiles.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had earlier set a December 31 deadline for denuclearisation talks with the US and White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien said at the time the US had opened channels of communication.

Mr O'Brien said he hoped Kim would follow

through on denuclearisation commitments he made at summits with US President Donald Trump.

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