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Oliver Hotham
Oliver Hotham was an NK News contributor based in Seoul, South Korea. Follow him on Twitter.
North Korea will not relinquish its nuclear arsenal until the regional "nuclear threat" from the United States is removed, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a statement Thursday.
In a dispatch released amid a visit to the peninsula by Washington's top North Korea negotiator Stephen Biegun and months of deadlocked nuclear talks, the DPRK blamed the U.S. for a lack of progress since July's Singapore summit.