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Impatient Trump meets Kim at the end of February

U.S. President Donald Trump and the North Korean rulers Kim Jong-un want to meet at the end of February to a second summit. The spokesperson of the White ho

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Impatient Trump meets Kim at the end of February

U.S. President Donald Trump and the North Korean rulers Kim Jong-un want to meet at the end of February to a second summit. The spokesperson of the White house, Sarah Sanders announced that after a Meeting between Trump and North Korean negotiators.

The place should be known later, said Sanders. Diplomats brought to Vietnam and Thailand as possible locations for a second Meeting in the game.

"The President is impatient to meet with President Kim," said Sanders. At the same time, she stressed that the "pressure and sanctions to get North Korea up to a full and verified denuclearization".

Trump had received negotiator Kim Yong-chol on Friday in the White house in Washington. About the specific content of approximately one and a half hour long conversation, nothing was known. US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo invited Kim Yong-chol, the North Korean Delegation to the talks in the White house for lunch, as the US Ministry of foreign Affairs confirmed.

Trump and Kim had met in June 2018, at a historic summit in Singapore for the first time. There, the North Korean stressed the power of commander-in-chief his willingness to "complete denuclearization". However, concrete Commitments, when North Korea wants to disarm its nuclear weapons Arsenal, and how the consideration of the United States might look like, were so far.

lack of progress

The isolated Stalinist country calls for an easing of international sanctions. But Trump has made it clear that he wants to for the time being, sticking to the policy of maximum pressure on North Korea. Last little progress in the talks had become known.

North Korea's rulers had recently demonstrated its proximity to China. Kim was last week in Beijing, where he held talks with President Xi Jinping. It is believed that he wanted to align its strategy with the Chinese leadership. China is by far North Korea's most important trading partner and is regarded as a lifeline for the country.

parallel meeting in Sweden

the same Time as the Meeting in Washington, it should give according to media reports, high-level talks in Sweden, where, among other things, North Korea's Vice foreign Minister, Choe Son-hui, and the US-Korea special envoy, Stephen Biegun, as well as the Swedish foreign Minister, Margot Wallström, to participate in.

The Swedish foreign Ministry confirmed the Meeting. Sweden takes on diplomatic duties for the United States in North Korea is true, because the United States had no diplomatic representation.

Guterres: "it's high time"

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said on Friday that it was "high time" that the talks between the US and North Korea to "begin in earnest" to get the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

One Western Diplomat warned meanwhile, a return to the "explosive Situation" by 2017, as Pyongyang with missile tests, the international community is provoked. If Kim is implementing in the coming months, nothing could Trump say that everything is going well. (nag/AFP)

Created: 18.01.2019, 20:44 PM

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