US Sec of State Tillerson to N. Korea: US ready to talk without pre-conditions - Reuters
|The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a speech to Washington’s Atlantic Council think tank late-Tuesday, the US is ready to begin direct talks with North Korea without pre-conditions, Reuters reports.
Tillerson said, “Let’s just meet.”
While reiterating Washington’s position that it cannot accept a nuclear-armed North Korea, Tillerson said the United States was “ready to talk anytime they’re ready to talk.”
But he insisted there would have to be a “period of quiet” without nuclear and missile tests to have productive discussions.
“We can talk about the weather if you want. We can talk about whether it’s going to be a square table or a roundtable,” Tillerson said.
“Then we can begin to lay out a map, a road map, of what we might be willing to work towards,” Tillerson said.
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