On the eve of a summit in Beijing, and just hours after Pyongyang’s chief nuclear negotiator said North Korea is ready to hold talks with the United States « if the conditions are mature », South Korea’s Yonhap reports that North Korea has fired one projectile…
On the eve of a summit in Beijing, and just hours after Pyongyang’s chief nuclear negotiator said North Korea is ready to hold talks with the United States » if the conditions are mature », South Korea’s Yonhap reports that North Korea has fired one projectile, believed to be a ballistic missile from a region near its west coast. The nature of the projectile is not immediately clear, a South Korean military official told Reuters.
The launch comes just hours after The South China Morning Post reports Choe Son-hui, head of the North Korea’s Foreign Ministry’s North America bureau, offered the assurance in the Chinese capital after an informal meeting in Norway with Thomas Pickering, a former US ambassador to the United Nations.
« If conditions are mature, we will hold dialogue with the Donald Trump administration, » she said.
Choe made the remarks just days after Trump said he would be willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un « under the right circumstances ».
But the comments also came as the US embassy in Beijing told China’s foreign ministry that North Korea’s attendance at the top-level gathering for the « Belt and Road Initiative » could send the wrong message as the world was trying to pressure Pyongyang over its repeated missile and nuclear tests.
