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North Korea urges Trump to be ‘bold’ to break deadlock
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- North Korean state media blamed U.S. President Donald Trump’s political opponents for the “deadlock” over denuclearisation on Saturday, urging him to act boldly to make progress on the thorny issue.
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- Mr. Trump and Kim Jong-un held a summit in Singapore in June, which the U.S. leader touted as a historic breakthrough.
- At the meeting, the pair struck a vague agreement to denuclearise the Korean Peninsula, but there has been little movement since.
- Meanwhile the North has criticised Washington for its “gangster-like” and “unilateral” demands for the complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantling of Pyongyang’s atomic arsenal.
Source
The Hindu