The U.S. is willing to meet with North Korea “anywhere, anytime,” said Sung Kim, Washington’s North Korea policy envoy, during a visit to Seoul.

Sung Kim was accompanied by Jung Pak, a U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state and the country’s deputy representative to North Korea. Kim and Pak are scheduled to stay in South Korea until Wednesday.

“We continue to hope that the DPRK will respond positively to our outreach and our offer to meet anywhere anytime without preconditions,” said Sung Kim at a trilateral meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts on Monday. “In the meantime, we