Today’s Yomiuri and Sankei took up a statement released yesterday by North Korean Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol regarding the prolonged stalemate in denuclearization talks with the U.S. The senior DPRK official reportedly noted that his country is running out of patience with the U.S., underscoring that the Trump administration would be “seriously mistaken” if it ignored the end-of-year deadline set by Kim Jong Un for the U.S. to propose mutually acceptable terms for denuclearization. He said the continued U.S. hostility means “there could be an exchange of fire at any moment.”