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President Mun Jung-in, a secretary of security and security at a seminar in the United States, says the United States needs to be more flexible and realistic when it comes to denuclearization. He also predicted that the recent hard-line confrontation between the United States and Iran will have little effect on North Korea.

Correspondent Jeong Jun-hyung reports in Washington.

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Moon, who attended a seminar organized by a US think tank, says it is time for North Korea to return to the negotiation table.

He stressed that the US needs to be more flexible as it has heard enough of North Korea's dissatisfaction.

[Jun Jung-in / President Unification Diplomatic Security Report: The United States needs to be more flexible and realistic. A strategy to reward denuclearization first cannot be realistically pursued. It doesn't work.]

The US should insist on a new breakthrough by revising its strategy for denuclearization.

To this end, he introduced the views of North Korean experts in the United States, including the signing of a peace treaty or reducing USFK, and explained that North Korea may consider easing snapback sanctions that could be reversed in the event of a violation.

He predicted that the confrontation between the US and Iran, which has been intensifying since the killing of Commander Soleimani, will not have a significant impact on North Korea.

[Moon Jung-in / Presidential Unification Diplomatic Security Report: North Korea has seen the same situation in Iran for the past 70 years, so it does not change North Korea's perception that it happens in Iran. I don't think I act because of Iran.]

In addition, North Korea is likely to continue a stalemate between North America, rather than provoking North Korea at the moment.