North Korea said on Sunday it was "not interested" in pursuing nuclear negotiations unless the United States abandoned its "aggressive" policy, saying Washington had until the end of the year. To take action, the day after the failure of consultations in Sweden.
The two sides held talks in Sweden after negotiations stalled for months after a summit in Hanoi in February between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump, and after Pyongyang tested a ballistic missile fired from the sea on Wednesday.
The North Korean delegation withdrew from the talks in Sweden, expressing disappointment that the US side has not offered "new and creative" solutions.
Pyongyang "is not interested in negotiations as long as the United States has not taken concrete measures to put an end to its aggressive policy," the North´s foreign ministry was quoted as saying.
"The fate of the dialogue between the United States and North Korea is in Washington´s hands and the deadline is the end of the year," she said.
North Korea´s chief negotiator at the talks, Kim Myong-gil, blamed the United States for the collapse of the talks to stick to its usual positions, saying the Americans "did nothing at the negotiating table."
But the United States confirmed Saturday that it had "good talks" with North Korea in Sweden, and US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortigas said it agreed to invite the Swedish side "to return to Stockholm to continue consultations on all issues."
Trump and Kim reached a vague document on "Total Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" at their summit in Singapore in June 2018, but no real progress has been made.
