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North Korea demands Pompeo's removal from US nuclear talks

The North Korean foreign ministry said it wanted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo removed from talks, calling him 'reckless' and 'immature'. [AFP]

North Korea on Thursday demanded the removal of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from talks over its banned nuclear programme, hours after the isolated state claimed to have tested a new kind of weapon.

Describing Pompeo as "reckless" and immature, the foreign ministry said it wanted him replaced by another interlocutor, a demand that significantly ups the ante in a sensitive diplomatic standoff.

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