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North Korea has said this Monday to be ready to resume negotiations with the United States at the end of September, in neutral since February, when Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un failed to reach an agreement on North Korean denuclearization.

"We want to be face to face with the United States at the end of September, on a date and place that we can agree on," North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said in a statement released by the official KCNA press agency.

The period mentioned by Pyongyang coincides with the annual General Assembly of the United Nations, which takes place the last week of September in New York and brings together leaders from all over the world. But it is still unclear whether a meeting between the American negotiator, Stephen Biegun, and his North Korean counterparts could take place on that occasion.

"I always say that meeting a good thing, " "let's see what will happen," replied Donald Trump, questioned by the press about the North Korean proposal. "I have a very good relationship" with the leader Kim, he took the opportunity to say. Questioned by the AFP, the US State Department said it had no meeting to announce. The Trump administration however has multiplied calls to resume negotiations.

Biegun, who has met on a few occasions with his North Korean counterparts since his appointment almost a year ago, asked Pyongyang on Friday to stop putting "obstacles" to the negotiations, before it is too late.

"We have made it clear to North Korea that we are willing to discuss as soon as they give us a signal," the US envoy repeated, proposing "to launch an intensive cycle of negotiations."

After a dangerous escalation of tension, the two countries began an unprecedented dialogue after the historic meeting between Trump and Kim in June 2018 in Singapore.

His second summit, in February in Hanoi, ended in failure: the US president refused to start lifting the sanctions in exchange for a simple start of nuclear disarmament proposed by the North Korean leader.

Since then, the negotiations are in neutral, despite the announcement of an imminent resumption after the two leaders met for the third time, in a more improvised meeting, at the end of June, at the inter-Korean border.

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