“Now is the time for both Koreas and the United States to focus on resuming work-level negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington as soon as possible,” he said.

Earlier, US President Donald Trump announced that he had received a “wonderful” letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and was ready for new negotiations on the North Korean denuclearization.

Yevgeny Kim, a leading researcher at the Center for Korean Studies at the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences, assessed the situation with the DPRK denuclearization in an interview with the NSN.