US ready to resume talks with North Korea

The United States declared its readiness to resume negotiations with North Korea, after Pyongyang promised to dismantle the key facilities of its missile program and offered to close the nuclear complex in Yongbyon if Washington takes retaliatory steps.

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that he proposed that the North Korean Foreign Minister meet in New York next week to complete denuclearization by January 2021, writes “Voice of America".

Pompeo reported this after the summit of leaders of North and South Korea in Pyongyang.

Apparently, the United States intends to use the commitments made by the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in his talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-Yin, despite critics' assertions that Pyongyang made almost no effort to take the path to irreversible denuclearization.

North Korea will allow experts from “interested countries” to observe the closure of the rocket engine testing ground and the launch site in Tonchang-ni, Moon Jae Ying told a joint press conference with Kim Jong-un after their meeting in Pyongyang.

North Korea will also take additional steps, such as closing the main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, if the US takes some unspecified retaliatory measures, the South Korean president added.

In addition to the proposal of the North Korean Foreign Minister Lee Young Ho to meet next week in New York, where they will arrive to attend the annual session of the UN General Assembly, Pompeo said that Washington had invited representatives of Pyongyang to meet with US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Bigun in Vienna "at the earliest opportunity."

China, North Korea’s main economic supporter and diplomatic ally, said it warmly welcomed the agreement reached in Pyongyang and strongly supported it.

According to South Korean President Mun Zhe Ina, Kim Jong-un would also like to hold a second summit with US President Donald Trump in order to speed up the process of denuclearization, reports “Voice of America".

The South Korean leader spoke about this on Thursday in Seoul - on his return from Pyongyang, where he was on an official visit for three days.

The South Korean leader visited the DPRK to break the deadlock in the negotiation process between the United States and North Korea. The focus is on the fulfillment of Pyongyang’s promise to stop the development of ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs.

Recall that earlier, during a summit held in June in Singapore, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un signed a general agreement on the denuclearization of North Korea.

Despite such statements by the DPRK leader, some US officials are deeply skeptical about denuclearization.

A US official involved in shaping US policy toward North Korea expressed concern that Kim Jong-un was trying to drive a wedge between Washington and Seoul.

"So far, North Korea has not offered anything that could be regarded as an irreversible movement towards denuclearization, but you are talking about January 2021 of the year or another date, or even reducing the military threat to South Korea and the region," a spokesman for the American intelligence said on condition of anonymity.

Despite the doubts of US officials and external analysts, North Korea’s promise made at the summit with the South Korean president has sparked an enthusiastic response from US President Donald Trump.

The head of the United States welcomed the promises of Kim Jong-un, calling them a part of "tremendous progress" in relations with Pyongyang in several directions.

According to Trump, “very good news” came from the inter-Korean summit.

Recall Trump-Kim Jong-un summit held on June 12The leaders of the two countries signed a general agreement and also stated that they had agreed on the gradual denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, although the details of this process were written and not made public.

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