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plans to meet Kim jong-un for nuke talks North Korean dictator Kim jong-un and
president Donald Trump planned to meet in May for nuclear disarmament talks a
whiplash development that would put two leaders who've repeatedly insulted
threatened and dismissed each other in the same room possibly in the North
Korean capital of Pyongyang it would have been an unthinkable suggestion just
a few months ago when the insults were at their peak Trump was a senile dotard
and Kim was little Rocket Man and the North was snapping off regular weapons
tests in a dogged march toward its goal of a viable nuclear arsenal that can
threaten the US mainland liberal South Korean president moon jae-in who some
believe has maneuvered the two leaders to this position reflected the hope and
relief many here feel about the planned summit when he declared Friday that it
will be a historical milestone that will put the denuclearization of the Korean
Peninsula really on track but there's also considerable skepticism North Korea
after all has made a habit of reaching out after raising fears during previous
crises with offers of dialogue meant to win aid and concessions some speculate
that the north is trying to peel Washington away from its ally Seoul
weakened crippling sanctions and buy time for nuclear development
it has also from the US point of view repeatedly cheated on past nuclear deals
and now the North has landed a face-to-face meeting with the leader of
the world's most powerful country a nation that North Korea has long sought
to draw into talks that it hopes would establish a peace treaty to end the
technically still active Korean War and drive out all US troops from the Korean
Peninsula removing what the North says is a hostile encirclement of its
territory by Washington and Seoul great progress being made Trump tweeted after
the South Korean national security director Chung EUI Jung emerged from a
meeting with the u.s. president and announced the summit plans to reporters
in a hastily called appearance on a White House driveway
that remains to be seen North Korea still produces propaganda declaring its
continuing dedication to the treasured sword of its nuclear program Washington
still remains publicly dedicated to annual war games with the South that the
North claims our invasion rehearsal they're expected to resume next month
after being postponed during the Winter Olympics in the south and to keeping
28,500 troops in the south and 50-thousand in Japan largely as a way to
deter North Korean aggression North Korea is engaged in a ploy to serve its
own interests and make him look like a bold leader of a normal peace loving
nuclear power according to Jay and Kim a visiting research fellow at the Korean
Peninsula future forum think-tank in Seoul but in spite of the deceptive
cloak the agreement posed an opportunity for the United States it put the ball in
Washington's court and provides a window for the Trump administration to engage
and test the regime through direct negotiations Kim wrote on the bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists web page US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in
djibouti on Friday that the decision to meet with Kim jong-un was made by Trump
himself and resulted from a sharp change in the North Korean leaders stance what
changed was his posture in a fairly dramatic way it was a surprise to us
that he was so forward leaning Tillerson said
he said it would take some weeks before the timing of the talks is worked out
North Korea appeared to confirm the summit plans a senior North Korean
diplomat at the United Nations in New York Pak seong-il told The Washington
Post in an email that the invitation was the result of Kim's broad-minded and
resolute decision to contribute to the peace and security of the Korean
Peninsula talks between Washington and Pyongyang have previously been overseen
by lower-level experts and have often bogged down even when so-called
breakthroughs have come in the pesky details such as allowing Outsiders in to
inspect North Korea's nuclear compliance for instance now the talks will start at
the top and there will be no time to settle all the problems that have
scuttled previous negotiations it's anyone's guess what Trump and Kim might
decide in the highest level meeting in what has been essentially a bloody seven
decades standoff between their countries the announcement Friday followed weeks
of softening ties between the Koreas orchestrated by the South Korean leader
moon and culminating in a visit by Kim jong-un sister to the south to observe
the Olympics in Pyeongchang and then chunks trip to meet with Kim in
Pyongyang this is a tried-and-true North Korean tactic reaching out at the height
of crisis in hopes of breaking out of spiraling tensions with the United
States according to a report by his Hickson Zhang and Evan Reiss Asia
specialists set straight for a geopolitical analytical group in this
instance pyongyang has skillfully played on South Korea's fear of a military
strike in hopes of reunification Trump took office vowing to stop North Korea
from its pursuit of a working long-range nuclear tipped missile he's oscillated
between threats and insults directed at Kim that have fueled fears of war and
more conciliatory rhetoric the historic announcement comes during a
period of unparalleled tumult in the Trump's west wing with the president's
policy agenda stalled and morale sinking a staff departures proliferate and
disrupt efforts to instill more discipline and order earlier Thursday
Chung briefed Trump and other top US officials about the rare meeting the
South Korean had with Kim in the North Korean capital during that meeting the
rival Koreas agreed to hold a leadership summit in late April the first in a
decade Kim expressed his eagerness to meet
President Trump as soon as possible Chung told reporters president Trump
appreciated the briefing and said he would meet Kim jong-un by made to
achieve permanent denuclearization the White House said Trump's meeting with
Kim would take place at a place in time to be determined Trump said that
sanctions against the north will remain in place until there's a deal Chung who
credited Trump's maximum pressure campaign for the diplomatic opening on
the nuclear issue said Kim understands that routine u.s. South Korea military
drills must continue Kim who had used his annual New Year's address to warn
the United States of a supposed nuclear button on his desk has an economy that's
been battered by heavy international sanctions Koh yuyuan a North Korea
expert at Seoul's donguk University said that the Trumpkin meetings success could
depend on whether the United States can accept a freeze of North Korean nuclear
weapons rather than a direct process to eliminate them
but already Trump seemed to have bigger goals in mind Kim jong-un talked about
denuclearization with the South Korean representatives not just a freeze the US
president said in a tweet thanks for watch please subscribe
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