North Korea warned the US that breaking its promise and holding military exercises with South Korea next month would jeopardize nuclear talks and could result in the regime resuming missile tests.​
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​”​With the U.S. unilaterally reneging on its commitments, we are gradually losing our justification to follow through on the commitments we made with the U.S.,” ​North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday in a statement released through state media.

President Trump, at his first summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore last June, said he would halt the “war games” as the two leaders continued negotiations to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.

Pyongyang has complained for years that the joint military operations were just a preparation for an invasion.

​“It is crystal clear that it is an actual drill and a rehearsal of war aimed at militarily occupying our Republic by surprise attack,” ​a North Korean spokesman said, adding that Trump reemphasized they would be halted in last month’s meeting with Kim.

Trump kick-started talks between the two countries when he met with Kim at the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Korea and became the first sitting president to step into North Korea.

Negotiations that were expected to continue in weeks are now at risk.

“We will formulate our decision on the opening of the DPRK-U.S. working-level talks, while keeping watch over the U.S. move hereafter,” ​a North Korea spokesman said, using the initials of North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

​The last long-range missile test by North Korea occurred in November 2017, but it has conducted test-firings of shorter range rockets since.

With Post wires​​

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