The U.S. and North Korea will convene working-level nuclear talks for the first time since before President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un met in Hanoi, Vietnam, for their second summit in February.
It could the first step towards a third meeting between the two leaders or a breakthrough amid months of stalemate.
"It is my expectation that the working-level negotiations would accelerate the positive development of the DPRK-U.S. relations," she said, according to state-run Korean Central News Agency. During that time, North Korea instead test-fired six rounds of ballistic missiles -- a total of eight since the Hanoi summit ended without an agreement. Analysts -- and Bolton, Trump's longest-serving National Security Advisor -- have warned that those tests allow North Korea to enhance its missile capability and undermine United Nations Security Council resolutions, which prohibit the launches.
Story continuesThe sequencing has stopped any forward movement. The U.S. has instead said sanctions won't be lifted until North Korea begins to dismantle its entire nuclear weapons program, which Bolton argued Monday Kim has not decided he will do.
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