Long Sought by North Korea, Summit Holds Risks for Trump Administration
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Lee General Manager: Catherine Lee Editor: John Robbins, Jun Gai Business Manager : Jennifer Lopez Address: 11122 Bellaire Blvd., Houston, TX 77072 Southern Daily News is published by Southern News Group Daily E-mail: [email protected] Inside C2 Saturday, March 10, 2018 | www.today-america.com | Southern News Group Long sought by North Korea, summit holds risks for Trump administration SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For at while other positions are entirely empty. least two decades, leaders in North Korea Joseph Yun, the U.S. envoy in charge of have been seeking a personal meeting with negotiating with North Korea, quit last an American president. week, and Trump has yet to nominate an Now, as a summit unexpectedly appears ambassador to South Korea. possible, analysts fear U.S. President Donald “A Trump meeting with Kim presents Trump’s understaffed administration may both risks and opportunities,” said Bonnie lack the expertise to successfully turn a po- Glaser, an Asia expert at the Center for litical spectacle long sought by Pyongyang Strategic and International Studies think into a meaningful opportunity to convince tank. North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. “The U.S. side needs to be very, very well South Korean officials said Friday Trump prepared and know exactly what it wants almost immediately agreed to meet North to achieve, as well as what the U.S. is Korean leader Kim Jong Un, without willing to provide in return.” preconditions, by the end of May. Even pro- Analysts say North Korea has been seek- ponents of a diplomatic approach towards ing a summit with American leaders as North Korea worry the administration could a way to secure international legitimacy, be rushing into a summit with little time to something that has prevented past U.S. prepare. administration’s from taking Pyongyang Such a summit - the first time sitting Amer- up on its invitations. ican and North Korean leaders have ever South KoreaÕs national security chief met - would typically happen after each side Chung Eui-yong briefs U.S. President had made at least some concrete agreements, Donald Trump at the Oval Office about his said Suzanne DiMaggio, a senior fellow visit to North Korea, in Washington March at the New America think tank, who has 8, 2018. The Presidential Blue House/ South KoreaÕs national security chief Chung Eui-yong briefs U.S. President Donald Trump at the engaged North Korean officials at unofficial Yonhap via“A summit is a reward to North Korea,” said Robert Kelly, a professor at discussions. Kim Jong Un has “committed to denu- decisions instead of repeating the... long slog of the South Korea’s Pusan National University. “It will have to be managed carefully with a clearization” and to suspending nuclear past,” the official said. “It extends the prestige of meeting the great deal of prep work,” she said on Twitter. and missile tests, South Korea’s Nation- In 2000, Marshal Jo Myong Rok, a powerful figure head of state of the world’s strongest pow- “Otherwise, it runs the risk of being more al Security Office head Chung Eui- in the North Korean armed forces, became the first er and leading democracy. That is why we spectacle than substance. Right now, Kim yong told reporters at the White House and most senior North Korean official to visit the should not do it unless we get a meaning- Jong Un is setting the agenda and the pace, on Thursday after briefing Trump. White House and meet a U.S. president, then Bill ful concession from North Korea. That is and the Trump administration is reacting. North Korea, Clinton. The administration needs to move quickly why other presidents have not done it.” though, has yet FILE PHOTO: to change to provide more - North Kore- this dy details. namic.” an leader Kim “There hasn’t Secretary Jong Un meets been any North of State members of the Korea-U.S. Rex Til- special delegation summit meet- lerson has of South Korea's ings at all and often been President in this having one after publicly photo released “North Korea has said these things North Korea has contra- by North Korea's before - Kim Jong Il wanted to meet already obtained dicted Korean Central with President Clinton,” said Mark nuclear weapons by the News Agency Dubowitz, CEO of Washington’s basically sends White Foundation for Defense of Democra- a signal that the House cies think-tank. U.S. is willing to over “Pyongyang has to be serious about deal with North North denuclearization. In the meantime, Korea on that Korea, the Trump administration should basis,” said Zhao Tong, a North Korea Shortly after, then-U.S. secretary of state Madeleine includ- continue using the toughest sanc- expert at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center Albright traveled to Pyongyang to meet Kim Jong ing on tions to maintain maximum pressure in Beijing. Un’s father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il, in a visit Thurs- before the summit in May.” “So that achieves North Korea’s first to lay the groundwork for a visit by Clinton that day objective, even if there’s no progress at would only happen after he had left office. when White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders takes questions all in terms of what they discuss at the During President Barack Obama’s administration, just hours during a daily briefing at the White House in Washington summit,” Zhao said. North Korean officials were also seeking a break- before the A senior administration official said through with the United States, and were disap- announcement of a summit he said “we are If the summit fails, the cost could be Trump was elected to take a different pointed when American officials offered no diplo- a long ways from negotiations”. higher than in the past, observers noted, approach from previous presidents. matic concessions, former U.S. director of national Several experienced career diplomats with North Korea firmly in possession of That included avoiding low-level intelligence, James Clapper, has said. occupy key positions in the Trump admin- a nuclear arsenal and Trump having said negotiations that have failed in the past Even observers who credit Trump’s hardline stance istration’s Korea and East Asia offices, but military strikes may be needed to remove in favor of talking directly to Kim as with setting the stage for talks said they are waiting many of them are in an acting capacity those weapons. the “one person who can actually make to see if this time is different. 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