U.S. Is a ‘Long Way’ From Talks With North Korea, Tillerson Says
- Secretary calls again for ‘talks about talks’ with North Korea
- South Korea will brief U.S. officials in Washington Thursday
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson played down hopes for a breakthrough on North Korea’s nuclear program, saying the U.S. is a “long way” from negotiations after the country’s leader offered to give up his weapons in exchange for security guarantees.
“We’re a long way from negotiations, we just need to be very clear-eyed and realistic about it,” Tillerson said Thursday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in his first comments since South Korean envoys met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and reported his willingness to accede to U.S. demands. The secretary called the signals coming from Pyongyang “potentially positive.”