North Korea agrees to work with US on talks restart

North Korea said it understood the need to resume stalled international talks on ending its nuclear programmes and agreed to work with the US to narrow “remaining differences”.

The statement from the reclusive communist state’s foreign ministry was its first reaction to three days of top-level talks with President Barack Obama’s special envoy.

Upon returning from North Korea, envoy Stephen Bosworth made similar remarks in Seoul, South Korea, that the two sides reached common understandings on the need to restart the nuclear talks.