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North Korea has said it is no longer bound by commitments to halt nuclear and missile testing, blaming the United States’ failure to meet a year-end deadline for nuclear talks and “brutal and inhumane” US sanctions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un set an end-December deadline for denuclearisation talks with the United States and White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said at the time the US had opened channels of communication. O’Brien said then he hoped Kim would follow through on denuclearisation commitments he made at summits with US President Donald Trump.