North Korea continues to violate global treaties on the use of nuclear and biological weapons, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday in a public summary of a new report on arms control.

The report, which accuses the North of breaching both the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), comes as the two countries remain locked in a tense diplomatic standoff over the fate of the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program.

North Korea withdrew from the NPT in 2003, but the State Department said on Wednesday that the country still “remains accountable” for