A North Korean diplomat said in a statement that DPRK Foreign Minister Tsoi Song Hee had recently “clearly defined her position” regarding “untimely rumors of a DPRK-US summit.”

“We explicitly reiterate that we do not intend to meet face-to-face with the United States,” the RIA Novosti’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a new statement.

Pyongyang said earlier that the US is considering dialogue with the DPRK as a tool to overcome the internal political crisis.