A top U.S. security official defended Washington’s new North Korea policy review on Sunday, arguing that it’s not trying to take a “hostile” stance against the DPRK after Pyongyang condemned it over the weekend.

“Our policy towards North Korea is not aimed at hostility. It’s aimed at solutions,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview with ABC News on Sunday.

Sullivan was responding to outcry from a North Korean foreign ministry official, who calledthe policy “hostile” and threatened Washington with a “crisis beyond control” after U.S. President Joe Biden referred to North Korea’s nuclear program as a