US ready for talks with Russia, China and DPRK to reduce nuclear threat

U.S. President Joe Biden has announced the country's readiness to hold talks with Russia, China, and North Korea to reduce the nuclear threat. They are possible “without preconditions”.

This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the White House.

The US president made the statement during his congratulations to the Nobel Peace Prize winners.

“The United States is ready to negotiate with Russia, China and North Korea without preconditions to reduce the nuclear threat,” Biden said.

According to him, neither their countries nor the world will benefit from blocking “progress in reducing nuclear arsenals.”

The US President added that reducing the nuclear threat “is important not despite the dangers of the modern world, but because of them.”

“These nuclear risks undermine the norms and agreements we have worked together to establish and contradict the vital work of today's Nobel laureates,” the US president said.

He also said that last year, during a visit to Hiroshima, Japan, he had a conversation with a survivor of the nuclear bombing (in August 1945).

Biden added that this person reminded him that “we must continue to move forward to the day when we can finally and permanently rid the world of nuclear weapons.”

Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 14/10/2024