North Korea ‘wants dialogue with US’

Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson says North Korea’s release of an American prisoner shows that the country is willing to negotiate with the United States.

“I think they want a dialogue with the United States — the fact that they released an American without any conditions,” he told radio show “The Cats Roundtable” on Sunday.

The US State Department announced last week North Korea released one of the three American nationals who were in custody in the country.

Jeffrey Fowle was arrested six months ago on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin.

He was flown out of North Korea on a US government jet that was spotted Tuesday, State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said, adding that Fowle had been evaluated by a doctor and appeared to be in good health.

“When they released Jeffrey Fowle from Ohio, they didn’t ask for anything in return, they just released him. I think that’s a good sign. Maybe the next step will be talks with Korea and the US, and we’ll try to get them to reduce or terminate their nuclear weapons. But I wouldn’t count on it. They’re so unpredictable. It’s their only card – nuclear weapons,” Richardson said.

He added that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has “ordered nuclear detonation, missile tests — he hasn’t exactly warmed the hearts of his neighbors and the US-North Korea relationship is in very bad shape right now.”

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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/10/27/383764/north-korea-wants-dialogue-with-us/

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