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...The joint US-South Korean military exercises next month will be the first large-scale drills since 2018, when they were scaled down ahead of a summit between Kim and then-US president Donald Trump....
...Diplomacy has stalled since the collapse of a summit at Hanoi in 2019 between Kim and then US president Donald Trump....
...For the broader electorate, Easley says the criticism is different....
...The report marked the first signal of operations at Yongbyon, about 90km north of Pyongyang, since December 2018, between the two summits held by Kim Jong Un and then US president Donald Trump....
...The latest statements from Pyongyang follow several years of unconventional diplomacy by the US, including three face-to-face meetings between Donald Trump and Mr Kim....
...The statement was a tacit acknowledgment that the rapprochement Mr Moon brokered with Mr Kim in 2018, and talks between Mr Kim and US president Donald Trump, have failed to convince North Korea to end its...
...Leif-Eric Easley, a North Korea expert at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, warned that while there might be a “brief pause” in provocations, Pyongyang would soon resume military action linked to deterring...
...Negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang over the nuclear weapons programme have stalled, despite three meetings over the past two years between Mr Kim and Donald Trump, the US president....
...US president Donald Trump will meet his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in later this month at the UN in New York, as optimism builds for the rekindling of talks with North Korea over its nuclear weapons...
...Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, said that Mr Kim was trying to buy time with his nuclear blackmail....
...But Pyongyang’s common negotiating tactic is to demand unearned concessions based on what it says it has done already, and then threaten to walk away,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international...
...Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, said: “Pyongyang is signalling that the upcoming negotiations are not going to be easy....
...They are demanding the US come to the table offering more than it did in Hanoi,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul....
...North Korea has accused the US of being “hell-bent” on “hostile acts” despite the unprecedented visit by President Donald Trump to the country on Sunday, underscoring the challenges as Washington tries to...
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