North Korea announced on Thursday that it no longer wants to talk to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, demanding that he be replaced in talks with someone more moderate, hours after North Korea officials announced that have undertaken the first weapons test since the failure of nuclear negotiations with the US.
North Korea's official KCNA news agency quoted senior foreign ministry official Kwon Kong Gun as saying that no one can predict the situation on the Korean Peninsula unless the US withdraws from the "root cause" that forced it to North Korea to develop nuclear weapons.
The statement came shortly after North Korea announced that leader Kim Jong Un had overseen the testing of a new tactical weapon, which KCNA writes has "a powerful nuclear warhead," reports Reuters, reports Time. Daily".
It was the North's first weapons test since talks in Vietnam between Kim and US President Donald Trump broke down in late February over North Korea's conflicting demands for sanctions relief and US demands that Korea North to give up its nuclear program.
