Amid efforts to revive the Kim-Trump summit, North Korea continues to seek diplomatic avenues across the region, and is finding other nations a lot more willing to meet for direct talks. Today, Kim Jong-un announced there will be a summit in which he visits Russia, presumably to meet with President Vladimir Putin.
This announcement was the product of a visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Pyongyang to meet Kim. This was the first time Kim had met a Russian official in person. Lavrov invited Kim to visit Russia during these talks.
Lavrov’s visit itself was the result of North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho visiting Moscow to meet with Lavrov about the possibility of talks last month. As with China and South Korea, diplomatic overtures have borne fruit quickly.
Kim has already in 2018 had two visits to China, and two summits with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in in the demilitarized zone. Now a Russian summit is confirmed, a US summit was confirmed, but cancelled, and potentially to be revived. Japan has also expressed interest in opening up talks with the North Koreans.
All of this diplomatic progress has led to talk of a peace treaty to end the Korean War, which began in 1950. Kim has also reiterated his commitment to reach a deal to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. This deal will presumably involve talks with the US, though efforts at salvaging the Kim-Trump summit remain a key stumbling block on that matter.
Now Trump needs to talk to Iran and get the Middle East de-nuclearized.
He should talk to Israel. The ME is denuclearized except for them.
…..exactly.
Get the USA denuclearized first. Have you seen recent comments by “defense chief Mad Dog Mattis” about improving space war?
Kim Jong-un to meet also Abe? And, as people used to say: “Let bygones be bygones”.
In other words, end once for all time enmity between and fearfulness of the Japanese and all Koreans.
Sins of their, gods, religions, fathers and mothers should no longer count!
When the Koreas re-unite, it is my belief that there will be a power sharing agreement and a transitional unity government which will consist of N and S collaborating on areas where they overlap and sharing knowledge on areas where they currently do not but will be operating once a unified govt is in place.
These diplomatic moves are brilliant on the part of the Koreans, both sides of the DMZ are working hard to make it a thing of the past. So where does that leave the U.S.?
The peace treaty to end the Korean war is THE most important issue, but who would now believe the USA in any promises to keep from attacking DPRK, especially hearing SCOTUS Trump’s lukewarm answers to questions about what the USA is offering.