North Korea will remain the “biggest ‘threat’” to the U.S. should the Trump administration continue to adhere to its confrontational policy, the country’s foreign minister said on Friday, warning that his country is ready for both “dialogue and confrontation” with Washington. 

The rare statement by minister Ri Yong Ho, carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), condemned recent remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s earlier in the week.

In a Wednesday interview with the Washington Examiner, Pompeo said the U.S. would “continue to keep on the sanctions that are the toughest in all of