The Korean Peninsula y USA They chain messages that prepare the talks. The last one has arrived today from the north of parallel 38: there is no reason to avoid them, said Kim Jong-un. Your denuclearizationnow an anatema for Pionyang, but its temporary pause or other issues still to be determined. Less ambitious but more plausible objectives that will bring at least some tranquility to the region after framed years.
“I still have affectionate memories of US president Trump”, Said Kim in a speech before the Supreme Assembly of the People, according to the official KCNA agency.“ If the United States leaves its absurd obsession of denuclearizing usaccept reality and wants a genuine peaceful coexistence, there is no reason not to sit with them, ”he continued.
A five years have passed since Trump and Kim Jong-un negotiated the “complete, verifiable and irreversible” denuclearization of North Korea in exchange for the lifting of sanctions and the normalization of relationships. That process left two summits in Hanói and Singapore, the photograph of the first US president stepping on North Korean soil in the border city of Panmunjon and no progress.
The arrival of Joe Bidenoblivious to any claim by Pyongyang, and conservatives to Seoul, just ruined the tune. Since then the Asian country has proclaimed as “irreversible” the condition of nuclear state. The last time was last week. His Permanent delegation at the UN DIDÑO as “anachronistic” and “provocative” American attempts to give up him. “The position of the Popular Democratic Republic of Korea (the official name of North Korea) as a state with nuclear weapons, which has been permanently proclaimed in the basic and supreme law of the country, has become irreversible,” they insisted on Vienna.
Iran and Libya
Only the nuclear weaponKim said today, ensures the country’s survival in the face of the threats of USA, South Korea y Japanthat last week they executed again joint military maneuvers against their coasts. “The world knows very well what the United States does after a country renounces its nuclear weapons. We will never do it,” he said. He has not detailed to which country he was referring to but there is no lack of background. Iran, for example. The agreement signed by Tehran Years ago it was understood as a road map for North Korea: it returned the country to global orthodoxy and lifted the sanctions in exchange for its nuclear program. In his first term, Trump canceled it despite the fact that the inspectors certified Iranian compliance and against the international community, experts and common sense. In his second mandate, he has bombarded him with viciousness. Libya also serves. Muamar the Gaddafi He sacrificed his nuclear program in exchange for global recognition and when he finished he did not have any defense. The official North Korean press of those days underlined the Libyan case as proof that trusting the promises of the West only ensures a tragic destination.
The wind blows in favor with Trump’s return and the progressives to Seoul. But North Korean denuclearization discardedit is necessary to set the terms of the debate. The South Korean president, Lee Jae Myung, has encouraged Trump to sit down with Kim and clarified that his government will accept an agreement that stops the North Korean nuclear program. “The reality is that the PRIOR POLICY OF SANCTIONS And the pressure has not solved the problem, they have only aggravated it, ”he said in a recent interview with the Reuters. Pyongyang agency adds between 15 and 20 new nuclear weapons every year, according to Seoul calculations.
Take advantage of Trump
That North Korea throws its arsenal into the ocean is chimeric; It is enough to pause it. It remains to know if Trump will accept that minor goal that implies recognizing North Korea as a nuclear state against UN opinion. “He has already dropped that he is and they have also done so Pete Hegseth (Secretary of War) and Marco Rubio (Secretary of State). In Washington many people think that this should have arrived long ago, ”he says Ramón PachecoProfessor of International Relations of King College London and expert in North Korea.
“Lee Jae Myung’s position is not new, it has a realistic vision of what can be and what cannot be negotiated with North Korea. Seoul will never give up North Korean denuclearization but the situation cannot be enquistada and without any dialog Add.
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