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The US is in "direct contact" with North Korea,
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said.
Mr Tillerson said Washington was "probing" the
possibility of talks with Pyongyang, "so stay
tuned".
"We have lines of communications to
Pyongyang," he said during a trip to China.
"We're not in a dark situation."
North Korea and the US have engaged in heated
rhetoric in recent months but it was not
previously known they had lines of
communication.
Inside the world's most secretive country
Where is the war of words heading?
US President Donald Trump has threatened to
annihilate North Korea, saying the country's
leader, Kim Jong-un, "is on a suicide mission",
which led Mr Kim to release a statement vowing
to "tame the mentally deranged US dotard with
fire".
North Korea continued the rhetoric into Saturday,
releasing a statement calling Mr Trump an "old
psychopath" bent on the "suicidal act of inviting
a nuclear disaster that will reduce America to a
sea of flames".
The war of words comes against a backdrop of
repeated missile tests and Pyongyang's claim
that, on 3 September, it successfully tested a
miniaturised hydrogen bomb which could be
loaded on to a long-range missile.
The tests were internationally condemned, with
the UN bringing in sanctions against North Korea
in an attempt to force the secretive state to stop
its weapons programme.
Mr Tillerson is in China meeting with President Xi
Jinping and other officials, hoping to encourage
them to implement the sanctions.
China this week told North Korean businesses
operating in its territory to close down . However,
China remains keen to see negotiations with
North Korea.
Mr Trump said last month that "talking is not the
answer".
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