North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that he is open to talks with the U.S. if Washington drops its longstanding demand that Pyongyang relinquish its nuclear weapons, state-run media said Monday, as South Korea¡¯s president threw his support behind a possible deal on freezing the North¡¯s nuclear program.
¡°If the United States abandons its delusional obsession with denuclearization and acknowledges reality, seeking genuine peaceful coexistence with us, we have no reason not to meet,¡± the North¡¯s Rodong Sinmun daily quoted Kim as saying in a speech to the Supreme People¡¯s Assembly, the country¡¯s rubber-stamp parliament, on Sunday.
Denuclearization is an outdated approach to talks, Kim said, pointing to his country¡¯s 2023 decision to enshrine its status as a nuclear power in its constitution.
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