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Citing first vice minister of foreign affairs Kim Kye-gwaNorth Korearea's central news agency also said the fate of the US summit as well as bilateral relations "would be clear" if Washington speaks of a Libya-style denuclearisation for the North.

North Korean First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye Gwan publicly rejected U.S. demands that the dictatorship rapidly, verifiably and irreversibly abandon its nuclear arsenal before getting any rewards.

In a statement, Kim Kye Gwan, Pyongyang's first vice minister of foreign affairs, said that if Washington was "genuinely committed" to improving relations, "they will receive a deserving response" at the summit, scheduled for June 12 in Singapore.

"If the U.S. is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-U.S. summit," wrote Kim Kye Gwan, a longtime North Korean diplomat who serves as the first vice minister for foreign affairs, using the abbreviation for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

On Wednesday, a Chinese foreign affairs vice minister, Zhai Jun, dismissed the latest American proposal, just as a second vice minister, Cui Tiankai, had done in a meeting with foreign journalists on Monday.

"I think I might be next," said the former first vice prime minister, Elmira Ibrakhimova, who resigned shortly after Mr. Sadyrkulov.

The meetings between Stephen W. Bosworth, the special American envoy on North Korean affairs, and Kim Kye-gwan, the first vice foreign minister of North Korea, were the first between the two sides since Mr. Bosworth visited North Korea in December 2009.

Mr. Davies's talks with North Korea's first vice foreign minister, Kim Kye-gwan, were the first instances of senior bilateral contact between the two countries since Kim Jong-un emerged as North Korea's new supreme leader.

The planned trip by the first vice foreign minister of North Korea, Kim Kye-gwan, follows his country's proposal on Sunday to hold senior-level talks with Washington to discuss easing tensions and eventually removing nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula.

Viktor Zubkov, Russia's first vice prime minister, told the RIA-Novosti news service that regulators would begin spot checks of wholesalers to make sure they were complying with the new norms.

And the first vice foreign minister of North Korea, Kim Kye-gwan, who attended the gathering, said North Korea was ready to talk without conditions, a standard phrase from the North Koreans for some time now.