By Yoo Jee-ho
HANOI, July 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan on Thursday rejected North Korea's demand to lift sanctions and urged the communist nation to take sincere denuclearization steps if it wants to resume international nuclear talks.
A North Korea diplomat, Ri Tong-il, told reporters earlier in the day that Pyongyang is willing to rejoin the stalled six-party talks, but sanctions on the country should be first lifted so that all participants in the negotiations will be on an "equal footing."
Ri, spokesman for the North's delegation to a regional security forum in Hanoi, also accused the South and the United States of posing "grave" threats to regional peace with large-scale joint naval exercises and fresh sanctions targeting Pyongyang.
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