US remains open to dialogue with North Korea
(VOVWORLD) -The United States is open to dialogue with North Korea without any preconditions, a spokesperson for the US National Security Council (NSC) said Tuesday.
 NSC coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby (Photo: Reuters) |
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently said his country feels no need for dialogue with the US or South Korea. NSC coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said the goal is the complete, verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and he believes there's still a diplomatic path forward to this.
Kirby said the US remains focused on bilateral and trilateral cooperation with South Korea and Japan during this hiatus in dialogue with the North.