N.Korea Blames U.S. for Stalemate in Talks

[Khephra]

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea on Monday blamed the United States for the stalemate in talks on its nuclear weapons programs, and warned it would use a "war deterrent force" if Washington brought the nuclear dispute before the U.N. Security Council.

The United States, North and South Korea, Japan, China and Russia have met for three rounds of talks aimed at getting the North to give up its nuclear ambitions, but little progress has been made. A fourth round slated for September never took place because the North refused to attend.

"If the U.S. applies more sanctions to the DPRK by putting the U.N. in motion, the DPRK will promptly and resolutely react to it with self-defensive war deterrent force," the North's official news agency, KCNA, said.

"Sanctions mean a war and war does not know any mercy," KCNA said.

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