WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in an interview to air on Sunday (Feb 18) that he is “listening” for signs that North Korea is ready to engage in direct talks. “My job as chief diplomat is to ensure that the North Koreans know, we keep our channels
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in an interview to air on Sunday (Feb 18) that he is “listening” for signs that North Korea is ready to engage in direct talks.
“My job as chief diplomat is to ensure that the North Koreans know, we keep our channels open,” Tillerson told the CBS news show “60 Minutes.”
“I am listening. I am not sending a lot of messages back because there’s nothing to say to them at this point. So I am listening for you to tell me you are ready to talk,” he said, according to excerpts of the interview.
An Olympic-driven thaw in relations between Kim Jong Un’s nuclear armed North Korean regime and South Korea has raised speculation that direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang could be on the horizon after months of sharp tension and heated rhetoric.
“They will tell me,” Tillerson told “60 Minutes.”
“We receive messages from them, and I think it will be very explicit as to how we want to have that first conversation.
