WASHINGTON, May 30 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. State Department on Friday bashed its former envoy to North Korea, who a day before said Pyongyang is not going to meet Washington's requirements on denuclearization despite laborious negotiations underway.
Jack Pritchard, who coordinated North Korea policy under both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, said Thursday that Pyongyang's officials told him they would only give up key nuclear facilities by destroying them, but not the weapons and plutonium already manufactured.