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TOKYO: North Korea on Tuesday dismissed presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s claims that he can enter a meaningful dialogue with the North and firmly slammed the door shut on negotiations.

The country’s Central News Agency published a commentary that the report referred to US diplomats suggesting the door to negotiations with North Korea is still open. The North firmly disagreed.

“There is no need to have dialogue that has impure intentions or that is an extension of confrontation in the first place,” the report said. “Through the decades of our relationship with the US, we have come to understand in our bones what dialogue has given us and what it has taken away. The decent part of the international community has already concluded that the US is a faithless country that makes excuses and does not fulfill its promises.”

“The groaning voices of confrontation fanatics, who are infected with the endemic disease of ‘hostility toward North Korea,’ have an ulterior motive to induce mental and psychological relaxation in our nation and easily realize their ambition to crush it.”

It cited the North Korea-US Basic Agreement that was adopted during the Clinton administration but was halted “with the US putting the brakes on its implementation by coming up with all sorts of excuses,” before scrapping it entirely.

“These facts show that the US is a politically backward and politically rogue country that overturns international treaties and agreements in an instant and without hesitation.”

The report also dismissed Trump’s claims that he gets along well with North Korea, quoting him as saying: “It’s good to be friendly with someone who has a lot of nuclear weapons and other things.”

The commentary responded: “No matter what administration is inaugurated in the US, the messy political climate caused by the seesaw game between the two parties will not change, and therefore we don’t care about it.” The North did concede that Trump tried to establish a relationship with its leader Kim Jong Un but added that in the end “there was no substantial positive change,” blaming the public mood in the US of hostility toward the North.

“For nearly 80 years since the founding of our Republic, the US has constantly pursued the most vicious and relentless hostile policy toward the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). We have developed self-defense capabilities to protect our ideology, system, dignity and way of life, and are fully prepared for an all-out confrontation with the US.”

“Do they really think we will believe them no matter how much they preach about so-called dialogue and negotiations? The US is working hard to expand the overall confrontational structure against our country. Due to the serious strategic errors of previous administrations, the time has come when the US must truly worry about its own security.”