A North Korean diplomat has threatened to reconsider the planned summit between the U.S. and North Korea, blasting recent remarks by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. 

According to a report by the North's official Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) on Thursday, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui said that she would propose a reconsideration of the summit to the North's leadership if the U.S. insults the North's good will. 

The vice minister said that the future of the summit is entirely up to the U.S. and condemned a media interview by Pence in which he compared the North to Libya. 

She lashed out at the vice president for saying that North Korea could end up like Libya if it fails to make a nuclear deal with Washington and that a military option for the North was never excluded. In a recent interview with Fox News, Pence also said the U.S. will not offer concessions to North Korea until it sees verifiable and irreversible denuclearization initiated. 

The North Korean diplomat stressed that Pyongyang will neither beg the U.S. for dialogue nor take the trouble to persuade it if it does not want to sit together with the North. 

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