North Korea to ignore US while ‘hostile policy’ in place

North Korea accused the new US administration of adopting "lunatic theory" yesterday, ruling out any engagement with Washington unless it changed course. The comments from Pyongyang's first vice foreign minister Choe Son Hui came with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin in South Korea on the second leg of an Asian tour to bolster a united front against the nuclear-armed North and an increasingly assertive China.