North Korea declared an end Friday to its diplomatic dalliance with the US. But experts say it’s been clear for some time that President Trump’s effort to sweet talk Kim Jong Un into relinquishing his nuclear weapons never really went anywhere.
North Korea began souring on the negotiations last year after a second Kim-Trump summit in February ended without agreement and sanctions relief did not materialize. In December 2019, the North ominously promised afor the U.S. That threat did not appear to have been carried out, and earlier this year Kim disappeared from view for weeks amid speculation about his health.
North Korea’s strategic goal is “to build up a more reliable force to cope with the long-term military threats from the U.S.” Ri said. They didn’t get the sanctions relief, but what they did get was a friendlier Trump administration. The president stopped talking about North Korean human rights abuses. When House Republicans recommended sanctioning 12 Chinese banks allegedly involved in sanctions busting and money laundering for North Korea, Trump sanctioned none of them.
China, Russia and South Korea also “took their foot off the pedal,” in terms of enforcing sanctions to pressure the regime, Cha said.
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