On Monday, North Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Son-Hui said that Pyongyang is ready to resume talks with the United States on nuclear disarmament in the Korean Peninsula. The talks could be in late September, she said in a statement to North Korea's state news agency KCNA, reports the Reuters news agency.
Choe Son-Hui says she noted the US's repeated calls for further calls. But she stressed that the United States must come to the negotiating table with proposals that will satisfy North Korea. Otherwise, negotiations between the countries will end, the minister said, according to the US news agency AP.
US-North Korea talks collapsed in Vietnam in February after US President Donald Trump rejected North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's demand that the United States lift its sanctions in exchange for partial disarmament on the part of North Korea.
The meeting in Vietnam's capital Hanoi in February was the second summit between Trump and Kim.
They met quickly again at the standstill line between North Korea and South Korea at the end of June. On Monday, North Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Son-Hui said that North Korea has given the United States enough time to submit new proposals and save nuclear weapons talks, the AP reports.