{"id":30733,"date":"2018-10-26T17:59:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30733"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:59:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:29:55","slug":"chance-for-peace-on-us-and-north-koreas-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chance-for-peace-on-us-and-north-koreas-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance for peace: on US and North Korea\u2019s relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/chance-for-peace\/article22986260.ece\"><b>Chance for peace: on US and North Korea\u2019s relations<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. should grab North Korea\u2019s offer of talks, and enable an environment of trust<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What has happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a remarkable development that followed unprecedented meetings in Pyongyang, South Korea has said that North Korea has been willing to talk to US about giving up its nuclear weapons<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to South Korea\u2019s national security chief, North Korea has clarified that<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t had no reason to retain nuclear weapons if &#8220;the military threat to North Korea is resolved&#8221; and the country&#8217;s security can be guaranteed<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, even days after South Korea issued a statement about the North\u2019s willingness to discuss denuclearisation and normalisation of ties with the U.S., Pyongyang is yet to confirm it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It could be waiting for a more concrete response from the U.S. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Significance of the move:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a marked shift from the aggressive foreign policy that North Korean leader, Kim has pursued since he succeeded his father in 2011.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also signals that his militaristic foreign policy is linked to perceptions about the survival of his regime, something for which he may be willing to reach a diplomatic settlement with the U.S.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Way ahead:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The visit by a South Korean delegation to Pyongyang and the subsequent North Korean offer to hold talks with the U.S. mark the most serious attempt in a decade to reduce tensions in the Korean peninsula.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. should grab North Korea\u2019s offer of talks, and enable an environment of trust<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chance for peace: on US and North Korea\u2019s relations Context: The U.S. should grab North Korea\u2019s offer of talks, and enable an environment of trust What has happened? In a remarkable development that followed unprecedented meetings in Pyongyang, South Korea has said that North Korea has been willing to talk to US about giving up&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chance-for-peace-on-us-and-north-koreas-relations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chance for peace: on US and North Korea\u2019s relations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704634885},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}