Anchor: Washington is maintaining its policy that there won't be dialogue with North Korea until the Pyongyang regime stops testing its nukes and missiles for a "significant amount of time." The clarification came from the U.S. ambassador to the UN a day after President Donald Trump said that he is open to phone talks with Kim Jong-un.
Kim Bum-soo has more. 

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[Sound bite: US President Donald Trump]
(Reporter: "Are you willing to engage in phone talks with Kim Jong-un right now?") 
"Sure, I always believe in talking. But we have a very firm stance, you know what it is. We're very firm. But I would be…absolutely I would do that. No problem with that at all." 

Speaking to reporters at Camp David on Saturday before the upcoming Seoul-Pyongyang talks, U.S. President Donald Trump did not dismiss the possibility of talks with the North Korean leader.

[Sound bite: US President Donald Trump]
(Reporter: "So no perquisites to coming to the table and talking to him?") 
"Right now, they're talking Olympic. It's a start, it's a big start... if something can happen and something can come out of those talks, that would be a great thing for all of humanity." 

In an interview with ABC's This Week on Sunday, Trump's UN ambassador Nikki Haley came up with clarifications, laying out specific conditions for talks.  

[Sound bite: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley]  
"There is no turnaround. What he has basically said is, yes, there could be a time when we talk to North Korea but a lot of things have to happen before that actually takes place. They have to stop testing. They have to be willing to talk about banning their nuclear weapons. Those things have to happen." 

She stressed that Washington will not repeat what has been happening over the last 25 years, noting that North Koreans have acted as if they're coming to the table, ask for economic incentives, and then "cheat their way through."

[Sound bite: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley] 
"No, I think stop testing is very important and for a significant amount of time, and then you go when you work towards the next step. This is going to be phases. This isn't going to happen overnight, as we've seen. But it's a dangerous situation."

While Seoul and Pyongyang are busy preparing for their first high-level inter-Korean talks in over two years, the USS Carl Vinson has set off for the West Pacific region from the U.S. mainland for a regularly scheduled deployment.

The supercarrier strike group is set to arrive in the West Pacific region near the Korean Peninsula around the time the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games open next month. 
Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News.

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