North Korea’s Kim says open to US talks if denuclearisation demands dropped

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivering a speech at the 13th Session of the country's 14th Supreme People's Assembly, at Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang [KCNA via AFP]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has suggested that he is open to talks with the US if Washington stops insisting that his country give up its nuclear weapons.

“If the United States drops the absurd obsession with denuclearising us and accepts reality, and wants genuine peaceful coexistence, there is no reason for us not to sit down with the United States,” Kim said in a speech at the Supreme People’s Assembly in Pyongyang on Sunday, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).