Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

The United States has on Friday stood on their stance of “working to ensure” the economic development options only if North Korea follows through on its commitment to complete denuclearization while reaffirming their resolve for a “bright” future for the Korean peninsula.

According to ANI news reports, the White House has issued a statement, stated: “The president has made clear that should North Korea follow through on its commitment to complete denuclearization, we will work to ensure there are economic development options.”

This stand has earlier led to the stalemate between North Korea and the USA following the very-first summit between US President Donald Trump and his N Korean counterpart Kim Jong-Un held last year in Singapore.

While Pyongyang has repeatedly called on for relief in US sanctions following its step the country has taken towards full denuclearization, the US has said that such steps would be only taken after N Korean full denuclearization.

The statement admired Trump’s “bold new diplomacy”, which led to the improvement of N Korea-US relations. The statement has also outlined the “maximum pressure campaign” that had been implemented by the US president in order to achieve “real progress” on Pyongyang.

The statement highlighted: “Prior to President Trump, efforts to negotiate limits on the DPRK’s nuclear program failed, despite billions of dollars in payment under prior administrations. Upon taking office, President Trump built an unprecedented international coalition to demonstrate that the world would not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea.”

The White House press release puts forth that “the international coalition mobilized by Trump implemented a maximum pressure campaign and the president has called on all countries to comply with these sanctions”.

The press release has been issued in a run-up to the second Trump-Kim summit scheduled to take place in Vietnam on February 27 and 28.

 

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