Michael Winiarski: north korea löftesbrott put pressure on Trump

This has been the case despite promises from Kim Jong-Un that north Korea intends to decommission all its nuclear weapons, on condition that the united states provide security guarantees to the regime in Pyongyang.

According to a confidential united nations report that has been submitted to the security council's 15 members and as the news agency Reuters has taken part of, have the observers found evidence of ”a consistent trend” from north korea's side to spread out their facilities for the assembly, storage and testing of nuclear weapons and missiles.

the north Korean leadership used the ”civilian installations, including airports”, in order to manufacture ballistic missiles.

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The new data can seem devastating for Trump's self-image as mästerförhandlare. But it surprises hardly anyone that has followed förhandlingsspelet between the united states and north Korea. Both parties have in the past year have consistently tried to produce the discussions more successful and binding than they have been in reality.

most clearly showed itself in connection with the Trumps and Kim's summit meeting in Singapore in June last year. There was nothing in the joint agreement which stated that north Korea should be nuclear-free, and even less how it would happen.

”fantastic,” and portrayed it as the two leaders in a battle had solved the whole crisis between the united states and north Korea. But there was nothing in the very vaguely worded final declaration, which guaranteed that north Korea really had gone on nuclear disarmament.

Not a word was said about it that the united states had previously demanded: the ”complete, verifiable and irreversible” kärnvapenavrustning. Instead ”reaffirmed” Kim his previous ”unshakeable commitment” to complete nuclear disarmament on the Korean peninsula.

Exactly what had happened between Trump and Kim learn we never get to know.

the united nations and U.S. economic sanctions against north Korea would begin to be phased out. The UN sanctions have been in force since 2006, and includes, among other things, the export of coal, iron, lead, textiles and fish products.

Trump, perhaps hoping that north Korea would soon begin dismantling its atomic bombs.

In which case the acclaimed Trump his north Korean colleague for his willingness to disarm. He talked about the ”special band” between them, and explained that he saw Kim as his guest in the White house.

, which is planned for the end of February in Vietnam, likely in Danang, hope the parties to break the deadlock that has prevailed since June 2018. On Wednesday, Trump's special envoy for north Korea, Stephen Biegun, to Pyongyang to prepare for the summit. A meeting with north Korean chief negotiator Kim Hyok Chol is planned.

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According to south Korean data are currently discussing how a possible compromise might look like; a variant is that the process is gradual, for example, to north Korea to begin with, the decommissioning of a large nuclear facility, to the united states to formally end the Korean war - in which there is a ceasefire since 1953.

Biegun has selected a flexible attitude than what the united states previously has shown. In a speech at the university of Stanford said Biegun that the united states is ready to cooperate with north Korea, ”despite the dramatically distinct views on individual rights and human rights”, because Trump is deeply involved in that once and for all put an end to 70 years of war and enmity.