What Can We Expect From Trump-Kim Round Two?
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a New Year’s address that he is ready to hold a second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, but threatened that if international sanctions against his regime aren’t lifted, he would have to abandon efforts to denuclearize his nation. Big stakes.
“I am willing to meet the United States president at any time for the betterment of our international community,” Kim said in his New Year’s Day address. “However, if the United States does not keep its promise in our international community and misinterprets our patience and intention and continues with the sanctions, then we have no choice for the sake of our national interest and peace of the Korean Peninsula but to come up with new initiatives and new measures.”
Kim, wearing a pinstripe suit, seated at a leather armchair, gave a motivational address to his nation, stressing the need for a stronger economy, but demanded that Seoul immediately halt any and all military activities with “other foreign sources.”
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“Those should be completely stopped,” Kim said. “That is our stance.”
“The statements and agreements after the summit with the United States were that we are going toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and that is my resolute commitment,” he continued. “We will not make nuclear weapons and we will not proliferate nuclear weapons, and I have said this, and I will say this again now.”
“If the United States can show corresponding measures, the relationship between the two countries will, through many processes, accelerate for the better. But if the counterpart continues with its past habits, it won’t be good, but I hope they stop this.”
Many experts say that the U.S. and North Korea have vastly different views on what denuclearization means — that the North views denuclearization as the United States removing all assets containing nuclear weapons in the region and along the demilitarized zone.
Since President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong Un in June, experts have said that North Korea has continued to produce fuel for nuclear weapons – and possibly weapons, themselves.
Kim essentially demanded in his New Year’s address that the United States lift all of its international sanctions, in exchange for a list or inventory of all of his nuclear weapons.
President Trump will now have to decide whether to hold firm or lift some sanctions, as his predecessors did.
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