North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Sunday evening said negotiations with the U.S. would not resume until it receives new security guarantees, following what the DPRK negotiators characterized as a breakdown in talks in Stockholm the previous day.

In a press statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the MFA said the U.S. negotiators had in recent talks failed to “bring any new package [deal], bringing only their existing stance.”

“With no compromise or guarantee, [the U.S.] only repeated vague claims that continuous and intensive negotiations were necessary,” the statement read.

It emphasized multiple