SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea promised to close its atomic control next month and invite U. S. weapons experts to the country, Seoul said Sunday, April 29, while U. S. President Donald Trump expressed optimism about a nuclear deal with the secret regime.
Kim Jong Un’s commitment follows weeks of lightning international relations in which North and South Korean leaders agreed to continue the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at a historic summit between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday.
“Kim said at the summit with President Moon that he would close nuclear control in May and would soon invite experts from South Korea and the United States, as well as news experts, to disclose the procedure to the foreign network with transparency,” Seoul presidential spokesman Yoon said. Young-chan said.
Kim said that “America is repulsed by us, but once we communicate it, they will realize that I am a user who will fire a nuclear weapon to the south or the United States or target the United States,” according to Yoon.
“If we meet (with America), build trust, end the war, and in the end promise that there will be no invasion, why would we live with nuclear weapons?”
Comments will most likely be seen as sweetening before Trump’s planned summit with Kim, which the US leader said would take a stand “in the next three or four weeks. “
Trump promised to do “a favor to the world” by reaching a nuclear deal with the regime at a Michigan campaign-style rally between cheers and shouts of “Nobel!Nobel!”
Trump has looked forward to betting on his component to break with Pyongyang what the White House has called a “maximum tension campaign” consisting of tough rhetoric, enhanced global sanctions, and diplomatic efforts to further isolate authoritarian rule.
“If we had said where we are today for 3 or four months, months ago, do you know what they were saying?”It’s going to drag us into a nuclear war,” Trump told his supporters in North Washington Township, Detroit.
He added: “No, force will keep us out of nuclear war, it may not let us in!”
But he also issued a warning note, saying he was in a position to resign if America’s demands that North Korea abandon its atomic arsenal were not met.
His comments came here as excerpts from a published interview with his new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Washington’s diplomatic leader told ABC News that he had had a “good conversation” with Kim on his secret scale in Pyongyang over Easter weekend, adding that the North Korean leader was “ready for Array. . . to map a map to help us achieve “denuclearization.
‘It’s going well’
Trump had phone calls the previous Saturday with Moon and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, saying “things are going great,” while CBS News reported that Mongolia and Singapore are the last two places under attention for their meeting with Kim.
It is not known whether North Korea will host American experts in its underground control of Punggye-ri before or after the summit.
In her meeting with Moon, Kim criticized the hypothesis that the verification site was already unusable after Pyongyang performed its largest nuclear check ever conducted there last September.
“Some other people say we’re completing a check that’s already useless, but, as you’ll see once you visit, there are two other tunnels (in the verification) that are even larger and in good condition,” he said. said, according to the Southern presidential spokesman.
Last year, Pyongyang made its sixth nuclear and introduced missiles capable of reaching the continental United States.
Their movements escalating tensions when Kim and Trump exchanged insults and threats of war.
Washington is pushing for the North to deliver its weapons completely, verifiably and irreversibly.
Pyongyang is asking for uns specified security promises to talk about his arsenal.
New era?
On Saturday, North Korea called its summit with the South a “historic meeting” that paved the way for the start of a new era.
Official news firm KCNA circulated the text of the Leaders’ Panmunjom Declaration in its entirety and said the assembly paved the way for “national reconciliation and unity, peace and prosperity. “
In the document, Kim and Moon “confirmed the unusual purpose of achieving, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-weapon-free Korean peninsula. “
But the expression is a diplomatic euphemism open to the interpretation of the parties.
Pyongyang has long sought to see an end to the presence of the U. S. military and the nuclear umbrella in the South, but invaded its neighbor in 1950 and is the only one with nuclear weapons.
When Kim crossed the demarcation line of the army that divides the peninsula, he became the first North Korean leader to set foot in the South since the end of hostilities in the Korean War in 1953 with an armistice than a peace treaty.
He then persuaded Moon to enter the North, a fact reported through KCNA on Saturday, and the two leaders shared a day of smiles, intimate moments and a 30-minute one-on-one conversation.
In the document, the two Korean leaders pledged to seek a peace treaty this year to officially claim the end of the Korean War, 65 years after the end of hostilities through an armistice.
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