Seoul is seeking to prompt Pyongyang into taking a more “comprehensive” approach to negotiations with the U.S., South Korea’s foreign minister stressed Friday.

In comments to foreign press at Seoul’s Foreign Correspondents Club, minister Kang Kyung-wha reiterated remarks made in a speech earlier in the week in which she said the DPRK would need to “expand” its scope should negotiations move forward.

Asked to clarify those comments, the foreign minister said the remarks represented a reiteration of South Korea’s stance that “a comprehensive agreement” between Washington and Pyongyang “inevitably will have to implemented step by step, simultaneously.”

“That was a