North Korea open to ‘dialogue’ with the US as tensions brew over a possible nuclear war

MAY 13, 20175:42PM

A SENIOR North Korean diplomat says Pyongyang will have dialogue with the United States if conditions are right.

Choe Son Hui, North Korea’s foreign ministry director general for US affairs, made the comment to reporters in Beijing on Saturday as she was travelling home from Norway, according to Yonhap newsagency.

“We’ll have dialogue if the conditions are there,” she said 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.