Sweden says happy to help on N.Korea, amid summit speculation

North Korea will start transitioning towards China’s dictatorship model.

Nonetheless, James Clapper, a former Director of National Intelligence and no swooning Trump fan, sees value in a top-level summit, arguing: “We need to hear from Kim Jong Un himself what it would take for him to feel secure”.

While the White House has spoken openly about Trump’s plans to meet with Kim, including discussion of preconditions that were not initially included in the president’s announcement, North Korea has been uncharacteristically silent on the meeting. “Those years of on-and-off negotiations were like climbing peaks and then sliding down the other side”, Park said.

I fully admit that I could be wrong and that the Blue House readout of their envoys’ meetings with Kim Jong-un is exactly what came out of Kim’s mouth. “If it fails, we crash”.

Another spot in South Korea that has been raised as an option is scenic Jeju Island, off the southern coast, easily accessed by either boat or airplane from the Korean peninsula.

“Talks will continue tomorrow”, the source said.

If a meeting materializes, the risk of miscalculation is high.

TBS said Abe told Moon he wanted North Korea to not only suspend nuclear and missile testing, but also accept International Atomic Energy Inspectors on its soil.

A BACKHANDED compliment to Donald Trump lurked in a recent editorial in the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North Korean Workers’ Party. There’s been no such contact ever between sitting US and North Korean leaders.

“What does North Korea mean by the suggestion that it will consider denuclearization as a condition for these talks?” she added. The possible summit would also take place as the North snaps off regular weapons tests in a dogged march toward its goal of a viable nuclear arsenal that can threaten the USA mainland.

In the past, that has meant Washington would have to withdraw all of its troops from South Korea, a condition no USA president has been willing to consider. “They now have nuclear weapons and a delivery system that can legitimately threaten all states in the United States”.

On Friday, the USA official left in charge of the State Department after Tillerson’s departure faced a delicate diplomatic task: to keep America’s key Asian allies on the same page over the outreach to Kim.

“Failed negotiations at the summit level leave all parties with no other recourse for diplomacy”, Cha, deputy head of the USA delegation at multi country talks on North Korea from 2004 to 2007, wrote on March 11. But South Korea and Japan also have tetchy relations and different perspectives on the problem.

Officials of the two Koreas will discuss key agenda topics and other matters related to the pending summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Kim, Moon’s presidential chief of staff, Im Jong-seok, told a media briefing.

Since taking office last May, the liberal Moon has maintained that South Korea needs to lead on the North Korea issue.

China is voicing support for the possible U.S.

Sweden’s top diplomat said Friday that her country stands ready to assist the United States and North Korea in moving forward a historic dialogue between the two nations.

Sweden has longstanding ties with North Korea.