TEHRAN, March 10-US President Donald Trump says an agreement is "very much in the making" with regard to resolving the existing dispute over North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
TEHRAN,Young Journalists Club (YJC) -US President Donald Trump says an agreement is "very much in the making" with regard to resolving the existing dispute over North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
"The deal with North Korea is very much in the making and will be, if completed, a very good one for the World. Time and place to be determined," Trump tweeted on Friday.
The remarks came hours after the White House announced that the US president would not meet the North Korean leader if Pyongyang does not adopt "concrete steps."
"The president will not have the meeting without seeing concrete steps and concrete actions take place by North Korea, so the president will actually be getting something," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told a news conference on Friday.
Sanders did not specify what actions Washington expects Pyongyang to take, but a White House official later said the US does not intend to set new conditions for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
'Don't give legitimacy to North Korea'
Meanwhile, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner called on the White House to have calculated plans for any possible talks with the North Korean leader.
"The administration must go into any meeting with a plan to ensure that negotiations with Kim Jong-un produce real results, not a photo op that lends legitimacy" to North Korea, Warner said in a statement.
On Thursday, South Korean National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong, who was in Washington to hold talks with US officials on the North Korean nuclear crisis, said Trump had expressed willingness to sit down with Kim “as soon as possible.”
Chung, who had paid a visit to Pyongyang earlier this week, said he had passed on a message to Trump that Kim was “committed to demilitarization” and had “pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests” if its security is guaranteed.
Source:Press TV
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