North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the test of a new-type anti-aircraft guided weapon system organised by the Academy of National Defence Science in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) May 28, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS
Reuters: China, U.S. agree on aim of 'complete, irreversible' Korean denuclearization
China and the United States agreed that efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula should be "complete, verifiable and irreversible", Chinese state media said on Saturday, reporting the results of high level talks in Washington this week.
"Both sides reaffirm that they will strive for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," a consensus document released by the official Xinhua news agency said.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had said on Thursday that the United States pressed China to ramp up economic and political pressure on North Korea, during his meeting with top Chinese diplomats and defense chiefs.
China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi and General Fang Fenghui met Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis during the talks. Yang later met with U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House, where they also discussed North Korea, Xinhua reported.
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Update #1: US, China reaffirm alliance on North Korea: report (The Hill)
Update #2: China, U.S. reaffirm commitment to Korean Peninsula denuclearization (New China)
WNU Editor: A broad declaration .... but no specifics on how to achieve it. This is what China wanted.
3 comments:
If they've really agreed on the "broad declaration," the 'specifics" can come later. Getting China to agree on a broad declaration is a good first step assuming they've really agreed.
The "deal maker's" experience with negotiations has been negotiating deals with people whose position relative to his was/is weaker. Now that he is POTUS he has to negotiate with parties who are equal to him and America and perhaps stronger. This is proving quite an adjustment for him.
Getting China to agree on a broad declaration is an amazing first step!! With that said I'm wondering what South Korea thinks about this. After all when faced with North Korea it would seem you'd want the option of nuclear arming yourself. As such, a "nuclear free" peninsula may not be in their interests.
The problem is they've been using America as their pawns since the early 1950s and had no reason to think this would ever change. They didn't conceive of the possibility of a POTUS who might actually put "America first." In fairness, few others did either. Furthermore Ameticans are taught from birth that they don't matter and should sacrifice themselves for others as they don't matter. Then along comes a POTUS candidate suggesting they do matter as in 'America first!!" The heavens had opened!! Pethaps the 200+ year nightmare that has been the American experience could FINALLY be over. Perhaps Americans could FINALLY begin to experience the dignity and lifestyle ghat most of the world takes for granted.
America's core intersts here are as follows. 1.) Eliminate the North Korean threat to itself. 2.)Renegotiate trade agreements with China that aren't helpful to us. 3.) As we are currently heavily dependent on China for much of what we need, ensuring a stable supply line from "made in China" is vitally important.
NOWHERE on this list is Americans dying for dear old South Koreans who hate and despise us and have used and abused us for many long decades. As to splving the problem with North Korea, broad agreements with China are a step in tne right direction. Now IF the "special council" should start investigating China and undermine this and our needed "made in China" supply, such would be contrary to American intersts.
Same story since decades.
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