North Korea Will Have Dialogue with US under Right Conditions
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A senior North Korean diplomat who handles relations with the United States said on Saturday Pyongyang would have dialogue with the US administration if conditions were right, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
Choe Son Hui, North Korea's foreign ministry director general for US affairs, made the comment to reporters in Beijing as she was traveling home from Norway, the agency added.
"We'll have dialogue if the conditions are there," she told reporters when asked if the North was preparing to hold talks with the Trump administration.
When asked if North Korea was also preparing to talk with the new government in South Korea, of liberal President Moon Jae-in, Choe said: "We'll see."
The comments by Choe, who is a veteran member of the North's team of nuclear negotiators, came amid stepped up international efforts to press North Korea and ease tension over its pursuit of nuclear arms.
In the same respect, US President Donald Trump warned in an interview in late April that a "major, major conflict" with the North was possible, but he would prefer a diplomatic outcome to the dispute over its nuclear and missile programs.
Trump later said he would be "honored" to meet the North's leader, Kim Jong Un, under the right conditions.
Choe was in Norway for so-called Track Two talks with former US government officials, according to Japanese media, the latest in a series of such meetings.
A source with knowledge of the latest meeting said at least one former US government official took part but the US administration was not involved.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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