Kerry says North Korea talks conditions 'unacceptable'

April 18, 2013 23:20

US Secretary of State John Kerry today dismissed a set of pre-conditions laid out by North Korea for talks as "unacceptable," calling them an opening "gambit" from Pyongyang.

The isolated North today responded for the first time to an offer from Kerry during his weekend visit to the Korean peninsula to return to the negotiating table in a bid to defuse heightened nuclear tensions.

The demands by the North's main military body included the withdrawal of UN sanctions and a permanent end to South Korea-US joint military drills.

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