One big incentive that the United States may offer to North Korea during the upcoming summit is the possibility of opening an American Embassy in Pyongyang, the first time the US would have ever had such an embassy post.
The summit, during which President Trump and Kim Jong-un will meet, is set for either May or early June. With officials insisting they won’t give North Korea anything without permanent denuclearization, officials are scrambling to find something they can offer as a confidence-building measure in the talks.
Having an embassy, and by extension having formal diplomatic ties, would be a big upgrade in US relations with North Korea. South Korean officials say such a move would happen if the summit is seen as a success.
It would be a “partial normalization,” which would allow the US to present it as something short of a full upgrade, and yet would offer the North Korean government a working-level contact with the United States on matters of diplomacy.
The lack of formal diplomatic ties has greatly complicated diplomatic exchanges with North Korea in recent weeks, with much happening in unofficial talks through the New York office, dealing with North Korean diplomats to the United Nations.
The US is not worth talking to. The sane world should stand up against America, not allow it to take over the world.
North Korea would be foolish to allow the US to open an embassy there. US embassies and Ambassadors are nothing but spies and platforms from which the CIA launches efforts to destabilize and overthrow regimes it doesn’t like. Kim, keep the US out of your country. If you allow a US embassy in North Korea Trump and his thugs will use it as a platform from which to bring about your overthrow.
“an American Embassy in Pyongyang, the first time the US would have ever had such an embassy post.”
Wow do you think this may be part of our problems with North Korea?
This certainly gives credence to those who believe a Globally CRITICAL war between the USA and North Korea has been PLANNED for many DECADES.
Not really; no embassy means no CIA safe base for ops in NK.
Whatever they have now would have to be underground and far less effective.
Well, that’s the kiss of doom.
Many other countries do have diplomatic relations with the DPRC, but we know very well that the USA has no use at all for diplomacy-violence and threats are the only relationships for real Americans.
All the embassies opened in North Korea won’t solve the trust issue. As Uncle Warbucks’s promises aren’t even worth jack on the toilet paper that’s written on.