US envoy offers to meet North Korea ‘anytime, anywhere’

The US is adopting a new approach to nuclear-armed Pyongyang to try and bring it back to talks.

Sung Kim, the United States’s special envoy on North Korea, has offered to meet officials from Pyongyang “anywhere, anytime” amid a continued impasse in negotiations between the two. In the meantime, the US will continue to enforce United Nations Security Council sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme and urge other countries to do the same, Kim said on Monday. “We continue to hope that the DPRK will respond positively to our outreach, and our offer to meet anywhere anytime without preconditions,” he said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.