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Denuclearization is an outdated approach to talks, Kim said, pointing to his country’s 2023 decision to enshrine its status as a nuclear power in its constitution.
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