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Trump and Kim

President Trump and North Korean Leader, Kim Jong-Un. [Photo credit: CNN}

U.S. won’t rush North Korea on denuclearisation, says Trump

byAgency Report
February 25, 2019
3 min read

The U.S. President, Donald Trump, has said he was in no rush to strike a nuclear deal with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong Un, as long as he maintains the country’s pause on weapons testing.

The two leaders are scheduled to meet in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, eight months after their historic summit in Singapore, the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.

There they pledged to work toward the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

However, their vague agreement has produced few results.

U.S. Democratic senators and security officials have warned Trump against cutting a deal that would do little to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.

As Kim made his way across China by train for the summit, North Korean state media warned Mr Trump on Sunday not to listen to U.S. critics who it said were disrupting efforts to improve ties.

Speaking in Washington on the eve of his departure for Vietnam, Mr Trump said he believed he saw eye to eye with Kim and that they had developed “a very, very good relationship”.

“I’m not in a rush. I don’t want to rush anybody,” Mr Trump said. “I just don’t want testing. As long as there’s no testing, we’re happy.”

North Korea conducted its last nuclear test, its sixth, in September 2017. It last tested an intercontinental ballistic missile in November 2017.

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The Trump administration has pressed the North to give up the nuclear weapons programme, which combined with its missile capabilities, pose a threat to the U.S., before it can expect any concessions.

But in recent days, Mr Trump has signaled a possible softening, saying he would love to be able to remove sanctions if there was meaningful progress on denuclearisation.

Mr Trump said he and Mr Kim expected to make further progress at the summit and again held out the promise that denuclearisation would help North Korea develop its economy.

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He scoffed at critics of his handling of North Korea, adding that Chinese President Xi Jinping has been supportive of U.S. efforts.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the U. S. had asked Russia for advice on North Korea but there was no quick solution to tension on the peninsula, Interfax news agency reported.

Mr Trump will arrive in Vietnam on Tuesday evening, Vietnam’s foreign ministry said.

He will meet Vietnam President Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party, on Wednesday morning, the ministry said.

Vietnam has released few details about arrangements for the summit including its specific venue or timing.

Kim is making his way to Vietnam, through China, by train and passed through the city of Changsha at around 1.10 p.m. (0510 GMT), South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.

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That would put him on track to arrive in Vietnam by early Tuesday.

A South Korean presidential spokesperson told reporters in Seoul the two sides might agree to declare a formal end to the 1950-1953 Korean War at the summit.

The war ended in a truce, not a treaty, and the North has long called for a treaty to end it. It also wants security guarantees.

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in, who supports opening up to old rival North Korea, praised both Trump and Kim in comments in Seoul.

He said those opposed to better ties on the peninsula, and between North Korea and the United States, should “discard such biased perspectives”.

The United States has for years demanded North Korea’s complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation, before any concessions will be granted.

North Korea denounced that stance as unilateral and “gangster like”.

Trump’s latest comments would appear to support speculation his administration is open to seeking a limited deal at the summit.

Officials in Washington and Seoul have said possible steps forward could include allowing inspectors to observe the dismantlement of North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear reactor and opening U.S.-North Korea liaison offices.

Declaring an end to a technical state of hostilities that has existed since the 1950s, and allowing some inter-Korean projects like a tourism zone in North Korea were other possibilities.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told “Fox News Sunday” he hoped for substantial progress this week.

However, North Korea had yet to take “concrete” steps on denuclearisation and another summit might be needed after Hanoi.

The New York Times reported Pompeo has conceded in private discussions he would be lucky if North Korea agreed to dismantle 60 per cent of what the U.S. has demanded.

He said that would still be more than any other administration had achieved.

The State Department declined to comment.(Reuters/NAN )

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