North Korea claims that the United States is to blame for their ruined ties and failure to achieve a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
 
The regime’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement released through the North’s official Korean Central News Agency on Sunday that Washington’s North Korea policy failed because it is based on a fundamentally erroneous view.
 
The ministry also criticized the U.S. for distorting the truth during the recent trilateral talks with South Korea and Japan by giving the impression that Pyongyang refused Washington’s advancement for dialogue.
 
It claimed that the North proposed it would suspend nuclear tests if the U.S. and South Korea halt joint military exercises in January, but the U.S. pushed ahead with the drills and now is blaming the North for failing to resume talks.
 
Pyongyang then vowed to ensure a "balance of forces" with the U.S. through its continued development of nuclear weapons.