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

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.

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.

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.

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.

“I was proud to step over the line,” Trump told Kim as they met in on the South Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjom. “It is a great day for the world.”

Trump tweeted: “If Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!”

"I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon)," Trump tweeted. "While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!"

Their analysis stands in sharp contrast to Trump's almost singular focus on security gaps at the border as the biggest threat facing the United States.

Trump delivered his first comments of the year during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, the 12th day of the partial government shutdown.