North Korea is open to direct talks with the US over their nuclear standoff, according to the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, who said he passed that message to his counterpart, Rex Tillerson, when the two diplomats met in Vienna on Thursday. Feltman is an American and a former US diplomat, but the state department stressed he was not in North Korea with any message from Washington. Read more“We know that North Korea wants above all to talk to the United States about guarantees for its security. Q&A What do we know about the Hwasong-15 missile? Photograph: KCNA/EPAHowever, the two sides have had informal contacts this year, involving Joseph Yun, the US special representative for North Korea policy.

Source: The Guardian December 07, 2017 22:18 UTC