The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed the United States’ stated intent to resume diplomacy on denuclearisation, urging Washington to accept her country as a nuclear weapons state.

Trump-Kim relations aren't dead, says high ranking official Kim Yo Jong — but if denuclearization is on the table, Pyongyang says don’t bother picking up the phone.

The North Korean leader's powerful sibling said Tuesday that talks on denuclearization, which President Donald Trump has said he would like to resume, would be seen as “mockery.”