North Korea’s state-run media on Tuesday said the Trump administration’s insistence that sanctions relief will only follow the Pyongyang’s denuclearization is the primary “obstacle” to progress in DPRK-U.S. nuclear negotiations, urging Washington to take “trustful measures.”

In a commentary titled “What do ill-boding remarks from the U.S. signify” by an author named Kim Chol Myong, the DPRK state outlet Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) denounced Washington for alleged two-faced behavior.

Recognizing that relations had begun to improve following a meeting early in the month between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Pyongyang,