Read more about White House will see if North Korea is serious about talks on Business Standard. The White House said today it would wait and see whether a new overture by North Korea for talks with the United States means it is serious about disarming, a step President Donald Trump and other world leaders agree must be the outcome of any
The said today it would wait and see whether a new overture by for talks with the means it is serious about disarming, a step and other world leaders agree must be the outcome of any future dialogue. « We will see, » was the response from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was on the today as a member of the US delegation attending in The delegation was led by Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter. Sanders said Trump remains committed to achieving the « complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization » of the peninsula and that his « maximum pressure campaign » against must continue until it abandons its nuclear and missile programs. Trump imposed fresh sanctions against late last week as part of the pressure effort. During the closing ceremony for the games, the office of South Korean Moon Jae-in announced that a North Korean delegate to said his country is willing to hold talks with the US The move comes after decades of tensions between the two countries, which have no formal diplomatic relations, and a year of escalating rhetoric, including threats of war, between Trump and North Korean The North has « ample intentions of holding talks with the United States, » Moon’s office said. The North’s delegation also agreed that « South-North relations and U. S.-North Korean relations should be improved together, » the statement said.
Sanders said the U. S., and the international community « broadly agree » that denuclearization must be the outcome of any dialogue with She said has a bright path ahead of it if it chooses denuclearization. « We will see if Pyongyang’s message today, that it is willing to hold talks, represents the first steps along the path to denuclearization, » she said in a written statement. « In the meantime, the and the world must continue to make clear that North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs are a dead end. » Trump of State Rex Tillerson, who favors diplomacy with over military confrontation, for « wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man, » which is Trump’s derisive nickname for North Korea’s At opening ceremony earlier this month, the North Korean leader’s sister, Jong, shared a VIP box with Mike Pence, who led a separate U. S. delegation, creating some awkward moments. Though Pence stood to cheer the entrance of the US team, he remained seated when athletes from North and marched together behind a « unification » flag, leaving Moon to instinctively turn around and shake Kim’s sister’s hand. Pence and Jong did not speak. Pence’s office claimed afterward that the North pulled out of a planned meeting at the last minute. During her visit, sat in the same box with Kim Yong Choi, of North Korea’s ruling They did not appear to interact when Jae-in shook hands with dignitaries at the beginning of today’s closing ceremony. Trump stepped up the pressure campaign against on Friday by slapping sanctions on scores of companies and ships accused of illicit trading with the pariah nation. said the US has now blacklisted virtually all ships being used by the North.
