US President Joe Biden says he would be willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un under the right conditions, as the country works to denuclearise the Korean peninsula, ABC reports.
Speaking to media with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday, the pair injected fresh urgency into attempts to engage North Korea in dialogue over its nuclear weapons.
Both said the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula was their goal.
The US President said he was "under no illusions" about the difficulty of getting North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal after his predecessors failed.
Mr Biden said he would be willing to meet Mr Kim under the right conditions — if there was a commitment from the North Korean leader "that there's discussion about his nuclear arsenal", and that his advisers first met with their North Korean counterparts to lay the groundwork.