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South Korean President Moon Jae-in (left) welcomed the US nuclear envoy to North Korea who came to Seoul to try to resume dialogue between Washington and North Korea. YONHAP / AFP

Stephen Biegun, the North Korean nuclear envoy, has been in Seoul, South Korea since Sunday for perhaps the last chance visit. A three-day trip whose objective is to try to relaunch the process of dialogue with North Korea.

From our correspondent in Seoul, Frédéric Ojardias

The visit comes as the North Korean regime resumes rocket testing , and threatens the United States to resume provocations by the end of the year. " It's time to get down to business (...) you know how to reach us ," said Stephen Biegun when he arrived in South Korea.

North Korea wants sanctions relief

This invitation is intended for Pyongyang , and suggests that no meeting is planned on the border between the American envoy and the North Korean negotiators. Stephen Biegun lands in Seoul as North Korea conducted its second rocket test on Friday in six days . Probably an engine test, on the ground.

The regime shows that it is about to openly resume its nuclear and ballistic program and the Party's Central Committee is meeting soon to validate this return to a hard line. Hopes of compromise by the end of the North Korean ultimatum are very slim. The regime demands American concessions and a reduction in sanctions in exchange for the two-year halt to its nuclear tests and its long-range missile fire.

But US President Donald Trump, campaigning for his re-election , cannot justify lifting sanctions without serious consideration. " There is no deadline for the United States, " reiterated Stephen Biegun. Analysts therefore expect new North Korean provocations in the coming weeks.