US "Interesting message from North Korea… Wait for negotiation"

<Anchor> During

a meeting of working-level representatives in Seoul to resume dialogue with North Korea, General Secretary Kim Jong-un's message to the US that the White House should prepare for both dialogue and confrontation responded as an interesting signal.

This news is from Washington correspondent Kim Soo-hyung.

[Reporter]

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan

told

ABC News that North Korea's message to the United States is an interesting signal, and that he is waiting for North Korea to come to the table.

[Jake Sullivan / White House national security adviser (Source: ABC This Week Twitter): We are North Korea is waiting for clearer signals that ready to sit down to the negotiating table in order to start the discussion (denuclearization)

Sullivan aide two hours He said the United States is ready to engage in principled negotiations with North Korea.

The United States emphasized that North Korea should send a direct signal to negotiate as it is ready.

General Secretary Kim Jong-un mentioned both dialogue and confrontation in the first US-U.S. relations message delivered at the plenary session of the Workers' Party on the 18th.

[Chosun Central TV (last 18th): You should be prepared for both dialogue and confrontation, and especially for confrontation, you should be more thorough... .]

National Security Adviser Sullivan said he believes that there is no substitute for diplomacy in resolving the North Korean nuclear issue and emphasized the will to continue dialogue for the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.