After months of shunning U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korea has made an abrupt overture to Washington about restarting talks — with a major condition.

In a statement on Tuesday, the DPRK leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong suggested that negotiations with the U.S. are possible if the Trump administration drops its demand for “denuclearization,” calling recognition of its nuclear status a “prerequisite for predicting and thinking [about] everything in the future.”

Her remarks appear to show that Pyongyang is at least theoretically open to rekindling dialogue, despite rebuffing Trump’s efforts to restore