{"id":73721,"date":"2019-11-15T06:58:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/11\/15\/north-korea-say-us-offered-to-resume-nuke-talks-in-december\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:53:26","slug":"north-korea-say-us-offered-to-resume-nuke-talks-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2019\/11\/15\/north-korea-say-us-offered-to-resume-nuke-talks-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea say US offered to resume nuke talks in December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 North Korea on Thursday said the United States has proposed a resumption of stalled nuclear negotiations in December as they approach an end-of-year deadline <\/a>set by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the Trump administration to offer an acceptable deal to salvage the talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement released by state media, North Korean negotiator Kim Myong Gil<\/a> didn\u2019t clearly say whether the North would accept the supposed U.S. offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said North Korea has no interest in talks if they are aimed at buying time without discussing solutions. He said the North isn\u2019t willing to make a deal over \u201cmatters of secondary importance,\u201d such as possible U.S. offers to formally declare an end to the 1950-53 Korean War, which was halted by a cease-fire, not a peace treaty, or establish a liaison office between the countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the negotiated solution of issues is possible, we are ready to meet with the U.S. at any place and any time,\u201d said Kim Myong Gil, who called for Washington to present a fundamental solution for discarding its \u201chostile policy\u201d toward North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the U.S. still seeks a sinister aim of appeasing us in a bid to pass the time limit \u2014 the end of this year \u2014 with ease as it did during the DPRK-U.S. working-level negotiations in Sweden early in October, we have no willingness to have such negotiations,\u201d he said, using the abbreviation of North Korea\u2019s official name, the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\t