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'A long way' to go for talks

Says Tillerson; China urges US, North Korea to hold talks 'sooner than later'

Agencies
Washington's top diplomat Rex Tillerson yesterday said the United States was "a long way from negotiations" with North Korea, which this week made a shock offer to discuss denuclearisation.
Tillerson, who is in Ethiopia on his first-ever Africa tour, said the signals from Pyongyang may be positive but stressed negotiations with Kim Jong Un's regime were not going to happen soon.
"I think as President Trump has indicated, (there are) potentially positive signals coming from North Korea by way of their intra-Korean dialogue with South Korea," he told journalists.
But "in terms of direct talks... we're a long way from negotiations, we just need to be very clear-eyed and realistic about it," he said.
He said a first step would be "talks about talks" to see if “conditions are right to even begin thinking about negotiations."
Details are still sketchy, but South Korea announced Tuesday that the North had stated there was "no reason" to hold on to its nuclear weapons "if military threats towards the North are cleared and the security of its regime is guaranteed".
The North is open to "frank" talks with the United States on denuclearisation and would suspend missile and nuclear tests while dialogue was under way, the South's
national security adviser Chung Eui-yong said after returning from a meeting in Pyongyang with Kim.
President Donald Trump welcomed the offer as "very positive".
However his Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told Congress he was "quite skeptical" and Vice President Mike Pence said the US position towards North Korea
would not change "until we see credible, verifiable, and concrete steps toward denuclearisation."
China yesterday urged the United States and North Korea to start negotiations as soon as possible, while Japan has warned it could be a ploy to play for time, and urged “concrete" steps from Pyongyang.
Chionese Foreign Minister Wang Yi cautiously welcomed
Seoul's announcement that Pyongyang had offered to hold denuclearisation talks with the United States in return for security guarantees.
The North also agreed to hold a historic summit between its leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in late April.
But Wang issued a word of caution, noting that breakthroughs on the North Korean nuclear issue had collapsed in the past.
Wang's comments come as two South Korean envoys left for Washington to brief US officials on the North's offer, after their landmark visit to meet Kim in Pyongyang.
Envoy Chung Eui-yong, head of Seoul's National Security Office, will travel to China and Russia following his Washington trip.
Meanwhile, South and North Korea will not march together at the opening ceremony of the Winter Paralympics, as they did at the Olympics last month, because they cannot agree on a united flag that erases islands disputed with Japan, officials said.
Japan complained to South Korea about fans waving the Korean peninsula flag at a friendly women's ice hockey match in the Olympics between the combined North and South Korean team and Sweden.
The flag depicts a map of the undivided Korean peninsula, including the disputed islands - known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese - in the Sea of Japan, known to Koreans as the East Sea.