North Korea breaks off nuclear talks, blaming US team's 'old attitude'

Washington says resumed negotiations in Sweden were ‘good’ and 70 years of hostility ‘could not be overcome in a day’

North Korea’s lead negotiator has said that working-level nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington have broken off, dashing prospects for an end to months of stalemate.

The North’s chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Myong-gil, who spent much of Saturday in Stockholm talks with an American delegation, cast the blame on what he portrayed as US inflexibility, saying the other side’s negotiators would not “give up their old viewpoint and attitude”.

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