US trying to persuade North Korea to come back to negotiations

cde.news desk 10 November 2019, 10:21 · 1 min read

epa07982708 Jo Chol Su, Director-General of the North Korean foreign ministry?s North American department, attends the 2019 Moscow Nonproliferation Conference (MNC) in Moscow, Russia, 08 November 2019 (issued 09 November 2019). The diplomat urged the United States to come up with new proposals in their denuclearization talks with North Korea by the end of his year, adding that the "window for opportunity closes every day." EPA-EFE/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT

The United States is “very actively” trying to persuade North Korea to come back to negotiations, South Korea’s national security adviser said on Sunday, as a year-end North Korean deadline for U.S. flexibility approaches.

Meanwhile on Friday a North Korean diplomat said that the window of opportunity for progress in dialogue with the United States was getting smaller, adding that Pyongyang expects reciprocal steps from Washington by the end of the year.

South Korea was taking North Korea’s deadline “very seriously”, the adviser, Chung Eui-yong, told reporters, at a time when efforts to improve inter-Korean relations have stalled.

Chung made the remarks at a news conference to mark South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s halfway point of his five-year term.

Via Reuters / Japan Times

Topics North Korea South Korea USA