North Korea open to talks with U.S. and halting nuclear pursuit during negotiations: South

North Korea is willing to hold talks with the United States on denuclearization and will suspend nuclear tests while those talks are under way, the South said on Tuesday after a delegation returned from the North where it met leader Kim Jong Un.

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