From Reuters:

The United States should give North Korea “political and economic” compensation after the collapse of an international project to provide it with nuclear reactors, a spokesman for Pyongyang’s foreign ministry said on Monday.

Last week, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO), the body running the project, pulled the plug on the long-stalled deal to provide two light-water reactors (LWRs) in exchange for the communist state freezing its nuclear weapons programmes, reports said.

The beleaguered project had been suspended since 2002 when Washington accused Pyongyang of cheating on the 1994 deal, called the Agreed Framework (AF), with a clandestine plan to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.

“Now that the construction of the LWRs came to a final stop, the DPRK is compelled to blame the U.S. for having overturned the AF and demand it compensate for the political and economic losses it has caused to the former,” the spokesman said in a report carried by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency.

I will translate: ‘Although we first denied a clandestine nuclear program – and later hinted at, then denied again, and later outright admitted to having one – it is folly to think we want anything other than a peaceful Nuclear-free Korean peninsula, it is the fault of the U.S. for stopping the KEDO project, even though we did technically break every nuclear deal we ever made…’ (repeat over and over and over).

Sigh.