Joseph Cheng on the possibility of direct talks between the US and North Korea, pointlessness of using threat of force and fiery rhetoric.
The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Washington is willing to engage in direct talks with North Korea over the country’s nuclear program.
“We’re ready to talk anytime they’d like to talk,” Tillerson said about North Korea on Tuesday afternoon at an Atlantic Council think-tank event in Washington.
The statement came two weeks after North Korea tested its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile.
RT: Rex Tillerson admitted the possibility of peace talks with North Korea. Do you think talks could actually happen?
Joseph Cheng: I guess so. Obviously, the negotiations will be very frustrating, they will be quite slow, but this is a very important breakthrough in a sense that the Donald Trump administration has finally come around and accepted the importance of negotiations. In the past weeks, it has been proven that various attempts to indicate the use of violence has been proven empty and ineffective. The use of military means on the part of the US does not have the support of Seoul and meets significant opposition from Beijing and Moscow.
