Sunday, April 1, 2018

North Korea-South Korea talks: from "fire and fury" to diplomacy

How did we get here? How did North Korea and the US go from talk of potential nuclear war to actual, well, talks? Here's one explanation: Experts tell me the war threats may have actually scared leaders like Trump.

"North Korea has 100 percent changed its tactics," Sue Mi Terry, a North Korea expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, told me.

In those talks, North Korea agreed to send a large delegation to the Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in February.

Moon, the son of North Korean refugees, has long advocated for friendlier relations and dialogue with the North.

Through a spokesperson, Moon said he would meet only if the conditions were right and also called for North Korea to meet with the United States.

The coming Trump-Kim summit made the South Korea meeting possible On March 8, South Korean envoys who had just met with Kim Jong Un relayed a message to Trump: The North Korean leader wanted to meet with him.

He campaigned in part on easing tensions with North Korea and continually advocated for a diplomatic solution to the US-North Korea standoff.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/30/17176316/north-korea-south-trump-fire-fury-moon

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