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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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