North Korea would review US ties if troops withdrawn from South: Envoy

‘North Korea’s ambassador to the UN says his country would consider normalizing relations with the United States in case President-elect Donald Trump orders the withdrawal of military forces and anti-ballistic missile systems from the South, and guarantees a peace treaty aimed at ending tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
“If he (Trump) really gives up the hostile policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), withdrawing all the military equipment from South Korea, including the US troops and coming to conclude the peace treaty, then I think it might be an opportunity to discuss the relations as we did in the 1990s,” So Se Pyong said in an interview with Reuters in Geneva on Thursday.
He, however, made it clear that Pyongyang would pursue the “simultaneous development” of its nuclear program and economy for the time being.’
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