U.S. Deputy Special Representative for North Korea Alex Wong said on Wednesday that the United States “is ready” to negotiate with North Korea again.

Speaking at a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Wong defended the Trump administration’s track record since the first U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore in 2018.

“The good thing about the work we’ve done at the leader level is that we have something that we haven’t had before, which is a leader-level commitment to complete denuclearization of North Korea,” Wong told senators. “The U.S. is ready. In discussions with [U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen