North Korea this weekend showed off its unique brand of brinksmanship diplomacy before and after the first round of reopened working-level negotiations in Stockholm, Sweden.

They launched an SLBM (submarine-launched ballistic missile) just two days before the meeting. And the chief of the North Korean delegation delivered a ready-made commentary within just half an hour of the negotiations coming to an end.

In that statement, ambassador Kim Myong Gil argued that the negotiations were broken, and blamed the U.S. for not bringing new methods and keeping up a hostile policy against the DPRK.

The U.S. provided a more positive description