21 November
A high-ranking North Korean official says Pyongyang has no interest in holding a summit with Washington.
North Korean First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son Hui held strategic talks on Wednesday with her Russian counterpart, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov, in Moscow.
Choe is in charge of negotiations with the United States.
After the talks, she said North Korea will further raise the level of its strategic partnership with Russia.
She also met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and discussed the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia.
Choe told reporters after the meeting that if the United States maintained what she called a "hostile policy" against the North, "a summit should not really be an issue of our interest."
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first summit in April. Government and parliament officials of the two countries have since increased exchanges.
North Korea is apparently trying to put pressure on the United States by forging closer ties with Russia.
NHK
