North Korea: North Korea on Tuesday asked the US to accept its status as a nuclear weapons state before any new summit with President Donald Trump, state news agency KCNA reported.

According to TRTworld.com, in a statement, Kim Yo Jong, the North Korean leader's sister and vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea, said North Korea's nuclear status is now "irreversible."

"The recognition of the irreversible position of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) as a nuclear weapons state and the hard fact that its capabilities and geopolitical environment have radically changed should be a prerequisite for predicting and thinking about everything in the future," Kim stated.

Trump, in 2019, became the first sitting US president to set foot on North Korean territory. As part of a series of negotiations with Pyongyang over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, he met Kim in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea.

Kim acknowledged that personal ties between the North Korean leader and Trump were not bad, but warned that such relationships are meaningless if the US continues to pursue denuclearization goals without adapting to geopolitical changes. "If the US fails to accept the changed reality and persists in the failed past, the DPRK-US meeting will remain a hope of the US side," she said.