Washington is willing to discuss trust-building initiatives with Pyongyang, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun said.
According to the US Special Representative for North Korea, "the United States has no intention of easing our unilateral or United Nations sanctions" on Pyongyang. "However, within the context of the engagement that we have with the DPRK, we are prepared to explore number of other things that could build trust," AFP cited Biegun as saying.
Biegun was in Seoul coordinating policies toward the North with his South Korean counterpart Lee Do-hoon, including on a highly symbolic groundbreaking ceremony due next week for reconnecting and modernising cross-border roads and railways on the peninsula.
Lee said they had agreed that the ceremony should go ahead as scheduled, as Seoul seeks to head off possible controversy over breaching sanctions against Pyongyang.
