North Korea admits it DOES want to have talks with Donald Trump – as it sends bizarre coded messages to its foreign spies

NORTH Korea has admitted it DOES want to have talks with Donald Trump "if the conditions are there" - as it sends bizarre coded messages to its foreign spies.

A senior diplomat has said Pyongyang will speak to the US after months of rising hostilities over the secretive state's nuclear programme, according to reports from South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Choe Son Hui, Kim Jong-un's foreign ministry director general for US affairs, told reporters in Beijing:

"We'll have dialogue if the conditions are there."

The statement came as a cryptic broadcast was sent across South Korea's airwaves, believed to be intended for North Korean spies.

The message told "number 27 expedition agents" to "review" their "foreign language lessons".

The secretive state resumed sending cryptic messages over its neighbour's airwaves last year, with analysts believing they are codes for overseas agents.

President Trump warned last month that "major, major conflict" with North Korea was possible as tubby despot Kim Jong-un ploughed ahead with his nuclear testing programme.

The US president later added that he hoped for a diplomatic outcome and would be "honoured" to meet with the tyrant under the right conditions.

A US State Department spokesman said the United States remains open to talks with North Korea but it would have to "cease all its illegal activities and aggressive behaviour in the region."

"We have been clear over the past twenty years that we seek nothing but a stable and economically prosperous Korean peninsula," the spokesman said.

North  Korea has threatened the US with a “full-scale” nuclear war and claiming the superpower is running scared of Kim Jong-un’s missiles and accusing it of trying to assassinate its tyrant leader.

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