US trying to persuade North Korea to come back to negotiations

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