North Korea said Monday that “reckless remarks” by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made it clear that Washington has no intention of resuming nuclear talks and Pyongyang warned that it is now compelled to pay back “the pains the U.S. has imposed on our people.” During a recent meeting of G-7 foreign ministers, Pompeo called for the international community to apply more pressure on the North to give up its nuclear program. Pompeo’s remarks showed the U.S. has no strategy to stop “a countdown of confrontation,” the North said in a statement attributed to an unidentified North Korean foreign ministry official in charge of negotiations with Washington.