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The North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement that if senior State Department and other American officials believed they could force North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons by increasing sanctions and their “human rights racket to an unprecedented level,” it would be the “greatest miscalculation.”

Instead, the statement added, “it will block the path to denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula forever — a result desired by no one.” The statement, issued in the name of the policy research director of the North’s Institute for American Studies, was carried by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency.

The warning came amid a prolonged stalemate in negotiations between North Korea and the United States over the terms of denuclearization. In his meeting with Mr. Trump in June, Mr. Kim committed to “work toward the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” In return, Mr. Trump promised peace on the peninsula, as well as security guarantees for “new” relations with North Korea.

Mr. Trump claimed that the North Korean nuclear crisis had been “largely solved” with the summit meeting. Since June, the North Koreans have refrained from criticizing Mr. Trump, whose impulsive and flamboyant negotiating style, analysts said, was favored by the North Koreans.

But the North has become increasingly angry at American negotiators, as working-level talks have bogged down over who should do what first in putting the broadly worded Singapore agreement into action. On Sunday, the North Korean institute accused officials from the State Department and other United States agencies of trying to sabotage the summit deal between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump.