North Korea said Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump must accept that Pyongyang is a nuclear power and that continuing to pursue a policy of denuclearization would prevent any new meeting between the two countries¡¯ leaders.

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, conceded in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency that the personal relationship between Kim and Trump ¡°is not bad.¡±

¡°However, if the personal relations between the top leaders of the DPRK and the U.S. are to serve the purpose of denuclearization, it can be interpreted as nothing but a mockery of the other party,¡± she said, using the acronym for North Korea¡¯s formal name.