North Korea is willing to resolve pending issues through face to face dialogue “at any time and in any way,” DPRK’s first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye Gwan said on Friday.

In Pyongyang’s first response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s abrupt cancelation on Thursday of a planned summit with Kim Jong Un, Kim said the decision “doesn’t conform with the desire of humanity which wish the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and the word.”

The statement, carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), came less than 12 hours after Trump called off his meeting with North