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| North Korea and US nuclear talks break down in less than a day | North Korea and US nuclear talks break down in less than a day |
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| North Korea says working-level nuclear talks with the US have been called off, on the same day they restarted. | North Korea says working-level nuclear talks with the US have been called off, on the same day they restarted. |
| US and North Korean officials met in Sweden on Saturday, in the hope of breaking their stalemate. | US and North Korean officials met in Sweden on Saturday, in the hope of breaking their stalemate. |
| "The negotiations have not fulfilled our expectation and finally broke off," North Korea's top nuclear envoy Kim Myong Gil. | |
| The meeting came just days after North Korea tested a new missile, in a significant step up from earlier tests. | The meeting came just days after North Korea tested a new missile, in a significant step up from earlier tests. |
| It was set to be the first formal working-level discussion since US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met briefly at the inter-Korean border zone in June. | |
| Neither of the leaders was present in Sweden, instead initial discussions were being handled by North Korea's Kim Myong Gil and US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun. | |
| What was expected? | |
| Many observers saw the fresh talks as an opening move to another Trump-Kim summit. | |
| The two have held two summits so far. The first one in Singapore in 2018 resulted in a vague denuclearisation agreement which led to little concrete results. | |
| The second summit in Vietnam in February 2019 ended early without any agreement. | |
| Didn't North Korea just test a missile? | |
| Just this Thursday, North Korea confirmed it test-fired a new type of a ballistic missile, a significant escalation from the short-range tests it has conducted since May. | |
| The missile - able to carry a nuclear weapon - was the North's 11th test this year. Fired from a platform at sea, it appears to be capable of being launched from a submarine, which means North Korea could potentially launch missiles far outside its territory. | |
| Analysts said North Korean might have been seeking to build up pressure ahead of the talks. |