North Korea's first vice foreign minister Kim Kye-gwan (File photo)
North Korea on May 25 said it is still willing anytime to talk in any form to the US after President Donald Trump cancelled the meeting with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which was scheduled for June 12.
"We again state to the US our willingness to sit face-to-face at anytime, in any form, to resolve the problem," Kim Kye-gwan, North Korea's first vice foreign minister, said in a statement carried by the state-run KCNA news agency.
"The abrupt announcement of the cancellation of the meeting is unexpected for us and we cannot but find it extremely regrettable," said the vice foreign minister.
Trump notified Kim on Thursday that he canceled their meeting, which was set for June 12. In a letter to Kim, Trump cited “tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement.”
In the statement, the vice foreign minister noted, the so-called “tremendous anger and open hostility” is just North Korea’s rebound to the US’s over-act to push North Korea unilaterally abandoning its nuclear program.
The meeting is urgent in order to resolve "grave hostile relations", he said.
"We had high regards towards President Trump's efforts, unprecedented by any other president, to create a historic North Korea-US summit," Kim added.