SEOUL, Dec 16, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The top US representative in talks
with North Korea on Monday slammed Pyongyang’s demands as “so hostile and
negative and so unnecessary”.
The North has set an end-of-year deadline for Washington to offer it
fresh concessions in their deadlocked nuclear talks, but Stephen Biegun told
reporters in Seoul: “The US does not have a deadline, we have a goal.”
He added that a major provocation by the North in the coming days would
be “unhelpful”.