SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea leader Kim Jong Un expressed his willingness to restore stalled communication lines with South Korea in coming days while shrugging off US offers for dialogue as “cunning ways” to conceal its hostility against the North, state media reported Thursday. The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency closed meeting on Thursday at the request of the United States, United Kingdom and France on North Korea’s recent tests. It said the “stable operation” of the channels is expected because their restoration was directly instructed by Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un has said he would bolster his nuclear arsenal and not resume nuclear diplomacy with Washington unless such US hostility is withdrawn. The diplomacy has been stalled for 2 ½ years due to disagreements over easing the US-led sanctions in return for limited denuclearization steps.
