North Korea has said the US has until the end of the year to come up with a new proposal to revive stalled diplomatic engagement between the two nations. US officials have similarly warned North Korea that time is running out, albeit without specific deadlines.
As a practical matter, these deadlines are all artificial and arbitrary, and the nations could engage whenever they want to. At the same time, many months have gone by without any progress, and the process is plainly growing stale for it.
It isn’t even that there are a slew of disagreements holding things up. Rather, there is a very specific issue: North Korea wants something in return for denuclearization, and the US just keeps demanding they denuclearize unconditionally, with hints they might get something in return eventually.
This had led to months of reiterating this position, boiling down to North Korea saying the US needs to offer a new approach, and no sign the US is even considering anything of the sort.
Again, the US could come forward with a proposal at any time, but the longer they ignore this one straightforward obstacle, the more it gives the appearance that the administration is content to let North Korea talks die on the vine, or would rather do that than make any concessions.
If you will not negotiate on the basis of maybe getting something in the future for actions taken now it is fairly obvious that you do not trust your negotiation partner. Given the several unilateral actions of President Trump that should no come as a surprise.
The word “diplomacy” shouldn’t even be used when discussing what the US is doing with North Korea or any other country. Ultimatums sounds more appropriate.
You got that right, wars. The word “diplomacy” shouldn’t even be used when discussing what the US is doing with N. Korea or any other nations ..Ultimatums sound a lot more appropriate.
It was Bonkers Bolton who sabotaged the 2nd summit with Kim Jong-un – held in Hanoi, Vietnam – when he burst into the conference room and handed DJT a sheet of paper (with an ultimatum of total de-nuclearization of NK written by him), I believe that led up to that lunatic’s dismissal.
What did Bolton sabotage? Our position has always been that we get everything up front and then we start “negotiating” from there.
If North Korea de-nuclearized the US might still deploy intermediate range missiles in Asia. If North de-nuclearized with the agreement American troops would be withdrawn from the Peninsula, South Korea and Japan might develop their own nuclear deterrent reasoning Washington could not be trusted to honor its obligation to protect them in the event of attack. A regional nuclear war would become a global nuclear war. That is the how complex the problem is. None of this augurs well for a peaceful solution.
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Time is not “running out” for negotiations with North Korea. The US and NK have been in a state of war for almost 70 years. I commend Trump (and I don’t do that very often) for the progress that he has made with NK, which is more than the last dozen or so presidents combined. To expect anything more than baby steps at this junction is unrealistic.