South Korea Says Open to a ‘Candid Discussion’ With North Korea

Any talks between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea must be held without preconditions, the government in Seoul said a day after Kim Jong Un raised the possibility of a summit.

“The government’s stance is that we will talk to North Korea in a way that is free from formalities for candid discussion on all kinds of issues,” Unification Ministry spokesman Lim Byeong Cheol said today at a briefing in Seoul. “If North Korea really has a will to improve inter-Korea relations it should hold talks without any preconditions.”