U.S. willing to sit at a table with North Korea

The statement comes days after US Deputy President Mike Pence had visited Pyongchang of South Korea, where the Winter Olympic Games are being held. He had also met with Moon, reports The New York Times”, broadcast Periscopi.

Since the launch of the vice president Saturday, reports of a consensus between Washington and Seoul on the possibility of dialogue have appeared in the news media, but South Korean officials did not confirm them until Tuesday.

The United States is looking positively at the dialogue between South Korea and North, as well as expressing readiness to start dialogue with the North,” said Moon spokesman Kim Ewi-kyem.

Dialogue with the North has been used by successive US administrations as a promise accompanied by the staff of sanctions in hopes of finding a solution of the isolated nation to end its nuclear weapons programme.

Until recently, administration officials Trump insisted that no such meeting would take place until the North had taken first steps towards disarmament.

But in an interview for the Washington Post” after he left South Korea, Pence suggested that the United States was open for a meeting, even showing that it would enter the talks unconditionally./Periscopi/