Biegun, the US special representative for North Korea, stressed that US-led sanctions, which Pyongyang wants dropped, would stay in place until North Korea completed denuclearization. In the course of nearly a year of diplomatic engagement with the United States, North Korea has maintained a freeze on missile and nuclear tests and space rocket launches in place since 2017. Biegun said Washington did not know what the activity spotted in North Korea meant. “We’ll see what happens with North Korea the same way we’re going to see what happens in the negotiations with China. A satellite launch in April 2012 killed off an Obama administration deal for a freeze in North Korean nuclear and missile testing reached weeks earlier.

Source: bd News24 March 12, 2019 06:45 UTC