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• Biden, South Korea’s Moon ‘deeply concerned’ about North Korea’s weapons program

  Biden announced he will deploy a new special envoy to the region to help refocus efforts on pressing Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

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  May 21, 2021
  
• Kim Jong Un calls for more nuclear weapons, calls U.S. North Korea’s ‘biggest enemy’

  Kim said Washington's hostile policies would not change regardless of who occupies the White House, suggesting relations with incoming U.S. President Joe Biden will be tense.

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  Jan 8, 2021
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• North Korea’s weapons programs ‘a serious threat’ as new missiles unveiled: U.S.

  U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said South Korea and the United States must find a more equitable way of sharing defense costs so it "doesn't fall unequally on the American taxpayers."

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  Oct 14, 2020
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• U.S., South Korean officials meet in Seoul as North Korea rejects nuclear talks

  The U.S. point man for North Korea met with South Korean officials in Seoul on Wednesday for wide-ranging talks, overshadowed by Pyongyang's insistence that it has no intention of returning to denuclearisation negotiations any time soon.

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  Jul 7, 2020
• ‘Nonsensical’: North Korea says it won’t resume nuclear talks with U.S.

  Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have met three times since embarking on their high-stakes nuclear diplomacy in 2018. But negotiations have faltered since their second summit in February last year in Vietnam.

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  Jul 6, 2020
• North Korea says Trump sent a letter to leader, offering help in fighting pandemic

  North Korea has repeatedly said there hasn't been a single case of the coronavirus on its soil.

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  Mar 21, 2020
• North Korea says it is no longer bound by nuclear testing commitments

  North Korea warned in December that it may take an unspecified "new path" if the U.S. failed to meet its expectations with a new approach to negotiations.

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  Jan 21, 2020
• Trump’s birthday message not enough to resume negotiations, North Korea says

  A North Korean official on Saturday said that the U.S. and South Korea are dreaming if they think that U.S. President Donald Trump’s sending a birthday message would get leader Kim Jong Un back to the negotiating table.

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  Jan 11, 2020
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• Kim Jong Un supervised weapons tests: North Korea

  North Korea said Sunday leader Kim Jong Un supervised test-firings of an unspecified new weapons system, which extended a streak of launches that are seen as an attempt to build leverage ahead of negotiations with the United States while driving a wedge between Washington and Seoul.

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  Aug 10, 2019
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• North Korea says nuclear talks with U.S. at risk if South Korea military drills happen

  North Korea's Foreign Ministry said Washington's pattern of "unilaterally reneging on its commitments" was leading Pyongyang to reconsider its own commitments to discontinue tests of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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  Jul 16, 2019