{"id":4733,"date":"2021-03-20T14:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T14:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2021-03-20T14:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T14:55:15","slug":"north-korea-is-giving-biden-the-silent-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4733","title":{"rendered":"North Korea is giving Biden the silent treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Since 1992<\/a>, America\u2019s policy toward North Korea has been mostly consistent: It would seek the \u201cdenuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.\u201d Simply put, that means the US won\u2019t station nuclear-capable warplanes in South Korea and Seoul won\u2019t seek the bomb, all so North Korea feels comfortable enough to verifiably dismantle its nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Kim and former President Donald Trump met in Singapore in 2018, they signed a declaration<\/a> in which North Korea promised to work toward such an outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But three times now the Biden administration has offered a harder-line stance than that, potentially reversing even that limited progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, Secretary of State Antony Blinken<\/a> told the UN\u2019s Conference on Disarmament that the US \u201cremains focused on denuclearization of North Korea.\u201d By phrasing it that way \u2014 the denuclearization of North Korea instead of the Korean Peninsula \u2014 he seemed to be suggesting that only North Korea needs to give up its nuclear weapons, while the US can still maintain its nuclear defense of South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the US \u2014 along with its \u201cQuad<\/a>\u201d partners Japan, India, and Australia \u2014 released a statement<\/a> saying, \u201cWe reaffirm our commitment to the complete denuclearization of North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then on Sunday, a State Department press briefing about Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin\u2019s trip to Japan<\/a> this week noted they would \u201creinvigorate trilateral cooperation on a broad range of global issues, including the denuclearization of North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though Biden\u2019s team has said its North Korea policy remains under review for a few more weeks, those statements indicate the administration has made up its mind. The goal now, it seems, is to let Pyongyang know it alone must agree to a non-nuclear future. For now at least, it looks like the Biden administration is taking a harder line than the Trump team did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That might please some US allies like Japan, which prefers a tougher stance against North Korea. But Seoul, which wants to keep diplomatic channels with Pyongyang open, certainly won\u2019t like it, and neither will Kim.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/3\/15\/22331522\/north-korea-biden-denuclearization-reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Since 1992, America\u2019s policy toward North Korea has been mostly consistent: It would seek the \u201cdenuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.\u201d Simply put, that means the US won\u2019t station nuclear-capable warplanes in South Korea and Seoul won\u2019t seek the bomb, all so North Korea feels comfortable enough to verifiably dismantle its nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n

When Kim and former President Donald Trump met in Singapore in 2018, they signed a declaration in which North Korea promised to work toward such an outcome.<\/p>\n

But three times now the Biden administration has offered a harder-line stance than that, potentially reversing even that limited progress.<\/p>\n

In February, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the UN\u2019s Conference on Disarmament that the US \u201cremains focused on denuclearization of North Korea.\u201d By phrasing it that way \u2014 the denuclearization of North Korea instead of the Korean Peninsula \u2014 he seemed to be suggesting that only North Korea needs to give up its nuclear weapons, while the US can still maintain its nuclear defense of South Korea.<\/p>\n

Last week, the US \u2014 along with its \u201cQuad\u201d partners Japan, India, and Australia \u2014 released a statement saying, \u201cWe reaffirm our commitment to the complete denuclearization of North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then on Sunday, a State Department press briefing about Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin\u2019s trip to Japan this week noted they would \u201creinvigorate trilateral cooperation on a broad range of global issues, including the denuclearization of North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though Biden\u2019s team has said its North Korea policy remains under review for a few more weeks, those statements indicate the administration has made up its mind. The goal now, it seems, is to let Pyongyang know it alone must agree to a non-nuclear future. For now at least, it looks like the Biden administration is taking a harder line than the Trump team did.<\/p>\n

That might please some US allies like Japan, which prefers a tougher stance against North Korea. But Seoul, which wants to keep diplomatic channels with Pyongyang open, certainly won\u2019t like it, and neither will Kim.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[390,272,355,314,780,277],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-diplomacy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-joe-biden","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}