SEOUL, July 27 : The recent nuclear deal with Iran showed that the United States can be flexible with a willing counterpart, including North Korea if it decides it wants talks on its nuclear programme, a U.S. envoy said on Monday.
North Korea has said it was not interested in an Iran-like dialogue with the United States to give up its nuclear capabilities, which it said were an "essential deterrence" against hostile U.S. policy.
Despite that, Sydney Seiler, U.S. special envoy for now-defunct six-party talks on ending the North's nuclear programme, said the United states left the door open to talks with the North when it is willing to end its diplomatic isolation.    ?REUTERS