{"id":351686,"date":"2018-03-11T06:35:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T05:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-north-korean-talks-still-a-tentative-prospect\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T06:35:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T05:35:49","slug":"us-north-korean-talks-still-a-tentative-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-north-korean-talks-still-a-tentative-prospect\/","title":{"rendered":"US-North Korean talks still a tentative prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US-North Korean talks still a tentative prospect<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Peter Symonds<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s abrupt about-face in accepting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un\u2019s invitation to a summit in May is a measure of the erratic and reckless character of his administration\u2019s foreign policy. Having spent his first year in office threatening North Korea with \u201ctotal destruction,\u201d Trump has agreed to talks, although this prospect is still tentative.<\/p>\n<p>Even if they proceed, the talks could break down rapidly, creating a more explosive situation on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his officials are vowing to maintain \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on North Korea, boasting that this has compelled the Pyongyang regime to discuss denuclearisation. The crippling US and international sanctions against North Korea remain in place, as does the threat of war, underscored by massive joint US-South Korean military exercises, involving hundreds of thousands of troops, that will begin next month.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the Trump administration wants North Korea to take steps toward denuclearisation before any summit proceeds. \u201cThe president will not have the meeting without seeing concrete steps and concrete actions take place by North Korea, so the president is actually getting something,\u201d she insisted.<\/p>\n<p>The basis of any summit remains unclear. South Korean officials who visited North Korea this week announced that Kim was willing to discuss denuclearisation in return for security guarantees from the US. At the same time, Kim reportedly agreed to freeze nuclear and missile testing, and turn a blind eye to joint war games in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean officials who flew to Washington to brief the Trump administration provided no further information as to what&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/10\/nkor-m10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US-North Korean talks still a tentative prospect By Peter Symonds 10 March 2018 US President Donald Trump\u2019s abrupt about-face in accepting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un\u2019s invitation to a summit in May is a measure of the erratic and reckless character of his administration\u2019s foreign policy. Having spent his first year in office threatening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}