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US President Joe Biden is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un if he has serious intentions. He announced this at a press conference during a visit to SOUTH KOREA, reports REUTERS.

“As for whether I meet with the leader of North Korea, it will depend on whether he is sincere and serious,” Biden said.

Washington offered CORONAVIRUS vaccines to Pyongyang to combat the country's outbreak, the president continued, but the US "has received no response." In North Korea, the day before, they reported the identification of almost 2.5 million patients with symptoms of an “unknown fever”.

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In February, then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in called a meeting between Biden and Kim Jong-un "a matter of time." “Because dialogue is the only way to solve problems, it is expected that eventually there will be a meeting between President Biden and Chairman Kim,” he said in an interview with Yonhap.

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The South Korean leader also expressed regret that the meeting in 2019 between the HEAD of the DPRK and the then US President Donald Trump did not lead to a deal and continued dialogue was not ensured.

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According to BLOOMBERG, in April, US Special Envoy to North Korea Sun Kim noted that the White House had not yet received a response to repeated calls for dialogue without preconditions. “We hope that the North Koreans will accept our invitation to a serious and lengthy dialogue,” he stressed at the time, assuring that Washington is ready to study any serious proposals from Pyongyang “regarding the situation on the [Korean] peninsula.”

Jake Sullivan, national security adviser to the American president, also said that there were no signs of North Korea's readiness for serious negotiations with the United States. On the eve of Biden's visit to South Korea, he indicated that there was nothing to indicate that the North Korean leader wanted a meeting.

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Former US President Donald Trump met with the North Korean leader in Singapore and Hanoi. During the first meeting, the leaders signed a joint document - Pyongyang then committed itself to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in exchange for security guarantees from Washington. The second meeting was held without signing agreements.

In June 2019, Trump met with Kim Jong-un again - in Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone between South Korea and North Korea. Then he symbolically crossed the demarcation line, becoming the first sitting American leader to visit North Korea.

Later, Pyongyang changed its attitude towards the agreements reached. “We don’t need lengthy negotiations with the United States, and denuclearization is no longer on the negotiating agenda,” said Kim Song, North Korea’s UN representative. He called the dialogue Washington's "gimmick".

Last June, Trump expressed confidence that Biden was unpleasant to the DPRK leader, and therefore their meeting would not take place. “He [Kim Jong Un] is a different type of guy, it takes a different type of guy to talk to him, but we got along,” the ex-president explained.

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