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World Service,06 Mar 2018,26 mins

North Korea is Willing to Talk

World Business Report

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Donald Trump has reacted cautiously to news that North Korea is willing to talk about giving up its nuclear weapons if it did not feel threatened. Shihiko Goto is an analyst at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program. Also in the programme, the toymaker Lego has admitted it has made too many bricks. Chief executive Niels Christiansen explains what's behind the first annual sales and profit fall at the firm since 2004. After a significant week of developments on the road to Brexit, we consider the prospects for a satisfactory deal between the UK and EU with economists Roger Bootle of Capital Economics, and Sebastian Dullien of the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. We have a report from northern Sweden exploring how helpful a national propensity towards humility is, when it comes to business success. Plus we get the latest from the financial markets from Joe Saluzzi at Themis Trading in New Jersey. Picture description: Chung Eui-Yong (L), head of the presidential National Security Office shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (R) during their meeting on March 5, 2018 in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo credit: South Korean Presidential Blue House via Getty Images

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