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US TOUGHENS STANCE AS NORTH KOREA TALKS STUMBLE

nepalnewsgazette.com August 29, 2018     Comment Closed     Fashion, General

With US-South Korean military drills back on the table and the cancellation of a top-level summit in Pyongyang, Washington is toughening its stance as it negotiates with North Korea.

Discussions have grown prickly after a historic summit in June between President Donald Trump and Pyongyang strongman Kim Jong Un, where the leaders embraced and pledged to work toward the "complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."

But despite the bonhomie of the occasion, Pyongyang has taken few concrete steps toward that stated goal and signs of frustration abound.

Last week, Trump nixed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's planned trip to North Korea, reportedly because he received what US officials deemed to be a "belligerent" letter from Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling party.

And on Tuesday, Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said the Pentagon is not planning to suspend any more military drills on the Korean peninsula.

"We took the step to suspend several of the largest military exercises as a good faith measure," Mattis told reporters. "We have no plans to suspend any more."

Still, Pompeo said Washington remains ready to engage with North Korea.

It will do so "when it is clear that Chairman Kim stands ready to deliver on the commitments that he made at the Singapore summit to President Trump to completely denuclearize North Korea," he said in a statement read aloud by his spokeswoman.

Following his summit with Kim, Trump scrapped this summer's massive Ulchi Freedom Guardian joint exercise with South Korea.

Carefully calibrating his words, Mattis would not say when exercises would resume, apparently leaving some wiggle room for North Korea.

"We are going to see how the negotiations go, and then we will calculate the future, how we go forward," Mattis told Pentagon reporters.

The next large-scale US-South Korean drills, known as Key Resolve/Foal Eagle, are set for next spring.

While North Korea views the exercises as a "provocation," they are loathed by China too. Trump last week berated Beijing, saying it was not helping enough with denuclearization.

Trump has staked a lot on his talks with North Korea. He prides himself on his being able to make deals and after the summit, he famously declared: "There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea."

Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, insisted talks are headed in the right direction.

"Is it moving fast? No, but we never thought it would. We knew that this was going to be a slow, tough process," she told an audience at a Washington think tank.

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK

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