After threatening military action, Trump said earlier this month he would be "honoured" to meet the North's leader Kim Jong-Un under the right conditions.
North Korea would hold talks with the U.S. under the "right conditions", a senior North Korean diplomat said Saturday in Beijing, according to local media. She was traveling from Norway, where she led a delegation that held an informal meeting with former USA officials and scholars.
Trump's administration since then has said that Pyongyang must agree to abandon its nuclear and missile programme before relations between the countries can improve.
It is particularly noteworthy that President Trump reacted to the suggestion of talks with the exact same language he reacted recently to questions about starting a nuclear war in Korea, that "we'll see what happens".
Choe Son Hui, North Korea's foreign ministry director general for USA affairs, made the comment to reporters in Beijing on Saturday.
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A US State Department spokesperson said the United States remained open to talks with North Korea if it would "cease all its illegal activities and aggressive behavior in the region".
"We'll have dialogue if the conditions are there", she said when asked if Pyongyang was ready to hold talks with the administration of US President Donald Trump.
These comments of course are deliberately vague while being deliberately unattainable, underscoring the Trump Administration aversion to diplomacy in general, and long-standing USA opposition to reaching any sort of peace deal with North Korea.
In Norway, Choi met with former USA officials and scholars for what are known as "track 2" talks.
Over the past month, United States has stretched its muscles in the Korean peninsula as a warning signature to North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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