US President Donald Trump (right) holds up the document that he and DPRK leader Kim Jong-un signed at the Capella hotel on Sentosa island, June 12, 2018 in Singapore. (EVAN VUCCI / AP)

SEOUL – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) warned the United States that agreements made between the two countries' leaders in Singapore last year could be at risk, blaming the United States for undue pressure to denuclearize, state news agency KCNA said on Tuesday.    

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The statement comes as media reports indicated the DPRK punished some members of its team that steered negotiations with the United States before a failed summit between DPRK leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump in Hanoi in February.    

"The US would be well-advised to change its current method of calculation and respond to our request as soon as possible,” an unnamed foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying     

Nearly a year after Trump and Kim first met in Singapore and signed a four-point joint statement pledging to work towards a new relationship, that agreement could be at risk if the United States does not drop its policy of “only insisting on our unilateral surrender of nuclear weapons”, an unnamed foreign ministry spokesman said in the statement.    

The DPRK warned that if the United States does not come up with something new “before it is too late”, the joint statement would just turn out to be a "mere blank sheet of paper".    

"The US would be well-advised to change its current method of calculation and respond to our request as soon as possible,” the official said in the statement. “There is a limit to our patience."

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The summit in Hanoi fell apart when Trump said Kim had failed to offer enough nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles in exchange for lifting international sanctions.

However, Pyongyang said it was willing to continue to abide by the joint statement as long as the United States finds a constructive approach.