N. Korea to US: 'don't ignore year-end deadline on Trump-Kim friendship'

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N. Korea to US: 'don't ignore year-end deadline on Trump-Kim friendship'


In this June 30, 2019, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump prepare to shake hands at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. North Korea said it's running out of patience with the United States over what it described as hostile policies and unilateral disarmament demands. It's warning that a close personal relationship between their leaders alone wouldn't be enough to prevent nuclear diplomacy from derailing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

North Korea said on Sunday there has been no progress in the North Korea-United States relations, and hostilities that could lead to an exchange of fire have continued, according to North Korea's state news agency KCNA.

In a statement under the name of Chairman of the Korea-Asia Pacific Peace Committee Kim Yong Chol, KCNA said that it would be mistaken for the United States to ignore a year-end deadline on U.S. President Donald Trump's and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's "close personal relations."

Kim Jong Un has set an end-of-the-year deadline for denuclearisation talks with Washington.

Read more at: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2019/10/103_277736.html