By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:57 EST, 16 June 2013 | UPDATED: 11:40 EST, 16 June 2013 North Korea has told the U.S. to 'pick a date and place' for high level talks to discuss tensions on the Korean peninsula only days after the Communist nation cancelled talks with rival South Korea. The planned talks with South Korea, which would have been the first in two years, were cancelled abruptly last week by the North. The country, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, blamed its neighbor for scuttling the discussions that were planned to seek a way mend ties between the countries.
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Offer comes after months of tensions caused by North's rocket test
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North says it will give up its nuclear weapons when the rest of world does
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