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NEW YORK — North Korea is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises with South Korea Women's Nico Siragusa Jersey , the North Korean foreign minister told The Associated Press in an interview in which he also warned that his country won't be cowed by international sanctions.


Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong defended the country's right to maintain a nuclear deterrent, and for those waiting for the North's regime to collapse, he had this to say: Don't hold your breath.


"Stop the nuclear war exercises in the Korean Peninsula Women's Tim Williams Jersey , then we should also cease our nuclear tests," he said in his first interview Saturday with a Western news organization.


Ri held firm to Pyongyang's longstanding position that the U.S. drove his country to develop nuclear weapons as an act of self-defense. At the same time, he suggested that suspending the military exercises with Seoul could open the door to talks and reduced tensions.


"If we continue on this path of confrontation Women's Chris Wormley Jersey , this will lead to very catastrophic results, not only for the two countries but for the whole entire world as well," he said Women's Tyus Bowser Jersey , speaking in Korean through an interpreter. "It is really crucial for the United States government to withdraw its hostile policy against the DPRK and as an expression of this stop the military exercises, war exercises, in the Korean Peninsula. Then we will respond likewise." DPRK is an abbreviation for North Korea's official name Women's Marlon Humphrey Jersey , the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.


Ri, who spoke calmly and in measured words, a contrast to the often bombastic verbiage used by the North's media Women's Lamar Jackson Jersey , claimed the North's proposal was "very logical."


He granted the interview in the country's diplomatic mission to the United Nations. He spoke beneath portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jung Il, North Korea's two previous leaders — the grandfather and father of current leader Kim Jong Un.


If the exercises are halted "for some period, for some years Women's Hayden Hurst Jersey ," he added, "new opportunities may arise for the two countries and for the whole entire world as well."


Ri's comments to the AP came just hours after North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile from a submarine in its latest show of defiance as the U.S.-South Korea exercises wind down. He referred to the launch in the context of current tensions caused by the military exercises. "The escalation of this military exercise level has reached its top level. And I think it's not bad — as the other side is going for the climax — why not us, too Maxx Williams Jersey , to that level as well?"


It is extremely rare for top North Korean officials to give interviews to foreign media, and particularly with Western news organizations.


Ri's proposal, which he said he hoped U.S. policymakers would heed Kamalei Correa Jersey , may well fall on deaf ears. North Korea, which sees the U.S.-South Korean exercises as a rehearsal for invasion, has floated similar proposals to Washington in the past but the U.S. has insisted the North give up its nuclear weapons program first before any negotiations. South Korea Ronnie Stanley Jersey , too, is unlikely to agree to any such plan.


The result has been a stalemate that Ri said has put the peninsula at the crossroads of a thermonuclear war.


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