The US has called on North Korea to refrain from further provocations and instead return to dialogue.
Jalina Porter, principal deputy spokesperson for the State Department, made the remarks on Friday amid speculations that the North may be preparing to conduct its first nuclear test since September 2017, possibly next week when it will celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birthday of late founding leader Kim Il-sung, Yonhap news agency reported.
“The Biden-Harris administration has no change in our policy and we continue to urge the DPRK to refrain from further destabilizing activities, and … instead choose to engage in serious and sustained dialogue,” she said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The spokesperson was responding to a question whether there has been a change in the US’ North Korea policy after Philip Goldberg, nominee for new US ambassador to South Korea, said the US must push for comprehensive, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation (CVID) of the North.