An extraordinary diplomatic move by sitting US President of accepting the invitation to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reflects victory of Donald Trump's foreign policy of applying "maximum pressure ".
It's a very risky approach by both the heads of the States as it may herald a new chapter in the progress for the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula or it may backslide.
Although US President Trump has earned a reputation of making deals on his own terms with while North Korean leader Kim is the sole authority to make decisions.This Trump-Kim meet will be the unleashing of a history in the making in the seven decades long standoff between the US and the DPRK.
North Korea has been seeking a direct meeting with an American president for more than twenty years to register itself as a regional military power.
But the tone of the talks will be seen after the venue of the meeting is decided as Who will host and will they choose a neutral venue."The deal with North Korea is very much in the making and will be, if completed, a very good one for the World. Time and place to be determined," Trump said on Twitter on Saturday.
"I think this is a positive step. I think the world is breathing a sigh of relief," former CIA chief and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.It is pertinent to mention that intricate diplomatic planning for the talks, possibility for negotiations is the only way to achieve complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea.
The meeting would be a first between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader, that comes after a months-long diplomatic standoff that saw the two leaders exchange fiery military threats and personal insults.
Both China and Russia , allies of North Korea hold the opinion that tough economic sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council aimed at choking off revenue to Pyongyang's military programs may not serve the purpose and urged US to accelerate diplomatic efforts to achieve desired results.No doubt Trump's meeting with Kim will be the most watched event of the world as global leaders are hopeful that the talks would ease off tensions that increased multifold after Kim's regime carried out a sixth nuclear test and advanced missile launches."North Korea's desire to meet to discuss denuclearization - while suspending all ballistic missile and nuclear testing - is evidence that President Trump's strategy to isolate the Kim regime is working," Vice President Pence said in a statement.
In 2006, North Korea tested its first nuclear device. The following year,Bush reportedly wrote a personal note to Kim Jong Il, “in which he held out the prospect of normalized relations with the United States if North Korea fully disclosed all nuclear programs and got rid of its nuclear weapons.”
In his last year in office, Bush authorized the removal of North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism (last year, Trump put the country back on the list). He hoped the move would salvage a faltering diplomatic process but ultimately the effort failed.
The most significant aspect of the President Trump is he has been setting unusual benchmarks like the America first in each and every deal US cliches with countries on trade, economic and military ties and this time how Trump is going to strike a deal with Kim to make America great again.
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