North Korea has said it will hold talks with the US \u201cif the conditions were right\u201d, South Korean media reports.<\/p>\n
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A senior North Korean diplomat said dialogue with the Trump administration was possible following a meeting with ex-US government officials in Norway.<\/p>\n
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Earlier this month US President Donald Trump said he would be \u201chonoured\u201d to meet Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n
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The comments follow months of rising tensions over North Korea\u2019s ballistic missile and nuclear programme.<\/p>\n
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Choe Son-hui, an official in the North Korean foreign ministry responsible for North American affairs, told reporters in Beijing that bilateral talks between Pyongyang and Washington would be considered.<\/p>\n
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The BBC\u2019s Korea correspondent Stephen Evans says North Korea would probably have to agree to at least discuss relinquishing or limiting its nuclear weapons for the US to participate.<\/p>\n
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Ms Choe, who has been involved in nuclear negotiations in the past, made the comments during a stop-over on her return to Pyongyang following a meeting in Oslo.<\/p>\n
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Mr Trump has previously said that he would like to solve the North Korea crisis diplomatically, but that a \u201cmajor, major conflict\u201d is possible.<\/p>\n
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The country has engaged in several military shows of strength in recent weeks including missile tests.<\/p>\n
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The US has responded by sending warships to the region to install a controversial anti-missile system in South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Korea has said it will hold talks with the US “if the conditions were right”, South Korean media reports. A senior North Korean diplomat said dialogue with the Trump administration was possible following a meeting with ex-US government officials in Norway. Earlier this month US President Donald Trump said he would be “honoured” to meet Kim Jong-un. The comments follow months of rising tensions over North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programme. Choe Son-hui, an official in the North Korean foreign ministry responsible for North<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6763,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/6763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}