While the Trump Administration insists publicly that progress with North Korea is continuing to be made, privately officials are suggesting things have ground to a halt. Recent US proposals, which is to say demands, have been uniformly rejected by North Korea, who complained they were “gangster-like.”
Officials familiar with this process say the US demands are centering on North Korea giving them full, verifiable denuclearization without any sanctions relief in return. They also say that North Korea is holding out for a peace treaty.
North Korea has always seen a peace treaty, ending the 1950 Korean War, as their goal in this process. Other nations have been proposing sanctions relief as well, given the concessions already made. The US has blocked this, insisting the sanctions must remain, and pushing for even more sanctions going forward.
All the times the US has praised North Korea for “goodwill gestures,” North Korea is seen wanting some gestures for themselves. Diplomats are being quoted in the press as saying this is likely to mean a peace treaty, and that North Korea isn’t going to make serious progress without that.
South Korea has been pushing the US to make some moves, but so far that hasn’t amounted to much. North and South Korean officials are meeting Monday to try to make progress on their own front.
As usual, the USA’s goal is win against anyone, any time. Never conciliate, never cooperate, always blame the other party.
If the USA is so afraid of the DPRK and its nukes, what on earth is wrong with a Peace Treaty, which the DRPK has asked for since 1953? Hardly a big ask.
Rosemerry, you’re right on target with this one, America’s goal’s a win against anyone, any time; never conciliate, never cooperate, always blaming the other party.
As you so rightly said, if America’s so afraid of the DPRK and its nukes, what’s so wrong with a Peace Treaty? Three of the DPRK’s leaders (Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-Un) have been begging for a Peace Treaty since the fighting ended in 1953, but the US so far has rejected their pleas; no wonder, there’s so little trust, the US is truly untrustworthy.
What should be done, when S. Korean President Moon Jae-In visits his DPRK counterpart in Pyongyang, is to go ahead with the negotiations and sign a Peace Treaty w/o US presence and get all US troops and their equipment (including the ineffective THAAD missile defense systems which Moon Jae-In and his constituents have been demanding since he took office) out of S. Korea ASAP.
We did the same thing in ’94. We didn’t stop the enmity back then, the sanctions, we didn’t take NK off the state sponsors of terrorism list as promised even though they hadn’t done any acts of terrorism since ’87 and we didn’t deliver on any of our other promises on time or at all. Big surprise it’s happening again.
“South Korea has been pushing the US to make some moves, but so far that hasn’t amounted to much.”
We should keep that in mind as our own neocons tell us we are abandoning the South Koreans.
I’m sure S. Korea’s been pushing the US to make some moves, but so far that hasn’t amounted to much, so what else is new, eh?
Indeed, we should keep in mind as our own Trotskyists aka neocons keep telling us we’re abandoning the S. Koreans which, of course, is a Big Lie. Never trust those monsters.
We don’t want S Korea to suddenly beg us to come and bomb N Korea . We are not South Korea’s boss , Let them make their own mistakes . God knows they could not possibly do worse than we have in Libya and Syria . I trust S Korea to make good decisions for themselves .
Kim sees how Trump tosses away treaties and agreements. Russia, Turkey, Iran, sanctions and broken agreements.. the same will happen to North Korea even if they de-nuclearize, then Trump will demand no ballistic missile program, like Iran. Then Trump will demand regime change so he can force the corporations into North Korea, stealing everything for themselves. Kim is too smart to de-nuclearize without a signed comprehensive peace treaty approved by the U.S. Congress with sanctions relief. If it’s not in writing, it doesn’t exist.
Trump is not the first U/S.president to cast long agreed upon treaties aside . Almost every agreed upon law between countries has been canceled because they were broken by the United States So the United States really sounds stupid when they start talking about international law
There is a lot the US could do without losing any security concerns. Big one would be to withdraw US naval assets designed for sea invasion. The B1s stationed in Guam are not critical. One ICBM with mirv ends North Korea. It would be wise to pull all assets around Seoul out. Frankly, these things could all be accomplished by trump himself, if he wanted to move this thing ahead, but, he doesn’t, for some reason.
Why not just let South Korea and N Korea to work out the problems all by themselves We don’t need to drop the sanctions until N korea has completed it denuclearization .. This should keep S Korea in control and allow N Korea to adjust to living with out being a nuclear power .
Why not just let South Korea and N Korea to work out the problems all by themselves We don’t need to drop the sanctions until N korea has completed it denuclearization .. This should keep S Korea in control and allow N Korea to adjust to living with out being a nuclear power .