North Korea has offered to hold direct talks with the United States on its recent proposal to halt nuclear tests in return for Seoul and Washington's halt of their joint war games.

On late Tuesday afternoon, North Korea's Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations An Myong-Hun told a news conference that Pyongyang is 'ready to explain its intention behind its proposal directly to the United States.'

An added that if the proposal 'is put into practice this year, many things will be possible.'

Last week, Pyongyang sent a message to the U.S. government, proposing that it would suspend nuclear tests if Washington temporarily scrapped joint military drills in South Korea.

The U.S. State Department has rejected the act-to-act proposal as an 'implicit threat' but said it 'remains open to dialogue' with North Korea.

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