North Korea announced Monday that it is willing to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States at the end of September, but said Washington must come to the table with new acceptable proposals.
If the new proposals do not satisfy North Korea, the agreements between the two nations will end, said Choe Son Hui, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs.
Choe’s statement was apparently aimed at pressuring the United States to make concessions when negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington resume.
It is believed that North Korea wants the United States to provide security guarantees and considerable relief from sanctions imposed by the U.S. government in exchange for limited denuclearization actions.
At the moment there was no response from the White House. However, US authorities have recently said they are ready to re-negotiate with North Korea.
In comments made Monday and transmitted by state media, Choe said that North Korea is willing to sit down with the United States for “extensive discussions at the end of September on the issues we have addressed, at a time and place that will be agreed upon.”
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She also warned that if “the United States returns to play a scenario that has nothing to do with the new decision methods in the negotiation between the DPRK and the US that will be carried out with much effort, the agreements” between both countries “will end”.
North Korea’s nuclear disarmament negotiations collapsed in February when US President Donald Trump rejected the requirement by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on relief of sanctions in exchange for partial disarmament on the second meeting in Vietnam.
