 The White House today said it would wait and see whether a new overture by North Korea for talks with the United States means it is serious about disarming, a step President Donald Trump and other world leaders agree must be the outcome of any future dialogue.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Trump remains committed to achieving the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the peninsula and that his maximum pressure campaign against North Korea must continue until it abandons its nuclear and missile programs. Trump imposed fresh sanctions against North Korea late last week as part of the pressure effort.
During the closing ceremony for the games, the office of South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced that a North Korean delegate to the Olympics said his country is willing to hold talks with the US The move comes after decades of tensions between the two countries, which have no formal diplomatic relations, and a year of escalating rhetoric, including threats of war, between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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