now 2018 was also a historic year in terms of North Korea US relations after
70 years of hostility the two sides held a summit of their leaders for the first
time in the middle of the year in Singapore things might be quiet at the
moment when it comes to their nuclear negotiations but there were other major
developments as well eg one has a wrap-up of the events and where the two
sides stand now on June 12th North Korea in the US held the first-ever historic
summit of their leaders when Kim jong-un and Donald Trump met in
Singapore the leaders agreed on four points to establish diplomatic relations
for North Korea security guarantee and to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula
some said their joint declaration was fake but many like Shin Bonterra senior
fellow at the athan Institute saw great meaning in the summit itself the fact
that North Korea and the u.s. moved away from their world wars in 2017 and
started to talk as a positive development before and after that summit
there were many other signs of progress the North Korean leader announced in
April that his regime will not conduct nuclear and missile tests South Korea
and the u.s. suspended a number of joint military exercises North Korea blew up
its nuclear test site at Hungary returned the remains of some 50 American
soldiers killed during the Korean War and released three Korean Americans it
had detained but there were some rough patches to North Korea criticized some
in the Trump administration who continued to push a hard-line stance at
one point strong rhetoric from the north led President Trump to cancel the summit
and even though the summit did happen as planned North Korea and the u.s. have
different ideas about how denuclearization should proceed and what
the rewards should be for each step along the way right now
talks seemed to be at a standstill a high-level meeting that was supposed to
happen in November was postponed at North Korea's request
supposedly for scheduling reasons but officials reportedly said that Pyongyang
actually wasn't ready and despite the u.s. reaching out reports say the North
has given no indication about when those talks should be rescheduled I think the
current stalemate is related to the verification of the North
denuclearization the US wants to talk with the north at a high-level meeting
about a thorough declaration and verification process to make sure that
there are concrete agreements reached that next year's summit but it seems
Pyongyang prefers top-down decision-making and wants to first hold
the summit early next year
president Trump and secretary Pompeo have both expressed hopes of holding the
second North Korea US summit in January or February but in order for that to
happen Shin says the two sides must build firm
trust in each other and come up with an overall roadmap to move forward with a
shared understanding eg1 arirang news
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