North Korea’s foreign ministry on Friday rejected what they claimed were U.S. attempts to shift the blame for the failure of February’s DPRK-U.S. summit in Hanoi, warning that diplomacy will continue to remain on hold until Washington’s posture changes.

The comments came in a response given by a spokesperson for the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to a question from a journalist from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Asked to respond to reported comments by U.S. officials “imputing the cause of the breakdown of the DPRK-U.S. summit in Hanoi onto us,” the spokesperson defended Pyongyang’s “significant and