Analysis: North Korea wants security guarantees, but can the United States deliver?
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un leave together after talks in Vladivostok, Russia, on April 25. Putin and Kim said they had good talks about their joint efforts to resolve a standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program, amid stalled negotiations with the United States. By Simon Denyer Simon Denyer Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea.
Kim is bound to be aware of what happened to Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gaddafi after they gave up their weapons of mass destruction — both men suffered violent deaths. North Korea has repeatedly made clear it vehemently objects to joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises and repeated that objection in a strongly worded statement Thursday. But many experts think Pyongyang would ultimately demand the withdrawal of all U.S. forces in South Korea as an eventual condition for denuclearization, something both Washington and Seoul maintain is not on the table.
John Delury, an associate professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, said providing security guarantees was more complicated than providing sanctions relief but that it is important to have a serious discussion with the North Koreans about the issue. Lankov, who is also a director of NK News, said security guarantees against a foreign attack could form part of an arms control agreement, but the United States could never offer the sort of security guarantees the North Korean regime would need to surrender its entire nuclear arsenal.”If the U.S.
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