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“We have a new set of sanctions measures coming forward as we speak,” he told a conference in Seoul organised by the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and the South Korean Joong Ang media group.

The “North Star” of US Joe Biden’s North Korea policy is the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, and it remains steadfast in pursuing that goal while being flexible in working with partners on how to achieve it, he said. The United States is also working on a more “visible” regional presence of its strategic assets, Sullivan said, referring to major weapons such as aircraft carriers and long-range bombers.

Sullivan said Washington had no ill intent toward North Korea and is open to talks without preconditions.The last round of US sanctions in October targeted two Singapore-registered companies and a Marshall Islands-registered firm that Washington said support Pyongyang’s weapons programmes and its military.

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