A year after diplomacy between North Korea and the world started, the
situation is at a stand-still, and officials are calling on the US and
South Korea to start coming up with new solutions to resolving the conflict.
North Korea’s Vice Minister of the Armed Forces, Kim Hyong Ryong, says
he sees a “dangerous, vicious cycle” of worsening tension because of the
hostile policies against North Korea.
Though the top leadership in the US and North Korea have both suggested
they want talks to resume, there is little indication the US is willing
to offer more than superficial changes to its strategy, which involves
demanding North Korea give them all their nuclear weapons and missiles
and getting pretty much nothing in return.
North Korean officials have regularly suggested the US needs to try
something different from this, because it’s not working, while US
officials insist it’ll work eventually, and that they’re comfortable
with however long it takes. In the meantime, tensions keep rising.
Good summary of what I see as happening.