Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is ready to talk about talking to North Korea. "We're ready to talk anytime North Korea would like to talk. And we're ready to have the first meeting without precondition," he said, in remarks Tuesday at the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington, D.C. It sounds like a chance for a diplomatic resolution to the dangerous nuclear crisis with North Korea, which has gotten tenser in recent months after North Korea's sixth nuclear test and two successful launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Throughout 2017, incendiary threats and name-calling have flown from the U.S. and Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, and the U.S. policy of "maximum pressure" has led to increasing sanctions to starve North Korea of resources. Now, the secretary of state is saying the U.S. wants to sit down with North Korean leaders . "We can talk about the weather if you want," Tillerson said, in his overture to North Korea. "We can talk about whether it's going to be
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