[Peace-discuss] So much for peace on the Korean peninsula, however with reunification, it may not be so easy to control our economic sanctions.

[Robert Naiman]

I wouldn't necessarily read too much into this. The U.S. always goes into
negotiations with the public story being their maximal demands. It's the
same way the Obama Administration went into the Iran nuclear talks. Part of
the theory is: don't concede anything in public until there's a deal. If
there's no deal people will attack the concession and there's nothing to
show for it. In the context of a deal, one can say, ok, you didn't like
this concession, but here's what we got in exchange. And there was no way
to get that without making that concession. And besides, it's a done deal,
it's a fait accompli, so complain all ya want, the show is over, this is
done and we're moving on to the next thing.

Look how stable the Iran nuclear deal has been. If Trump gets the Korea
deal, that's the deal.


Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> [image: A missile is launched during a long and medium-range ballistic
> rocket launch drill in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean
> Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on August 30, 2017.]
> Trump to Demand Full Removal of N. Korea's Nuclear, Ballistic Arsenal –
> Bolton
> © REUTERS / KCNA
> MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE <https://sputniknews.com/military/>
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> <https://sputniknews.com/military/201804291064019723-north-korea-nuclear-ballistic-arsenal/#comments>
> 336
>
> MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump intends to seek complete
> elimination of the North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile arsenal
> before making concessions to Pyongyang in lifting economic sanctions from
> the country, US National Security Adviser John Bolton told Fox News on
> Sunday.
>
> When asked whether Trump would make concessions to Kim only after North
> Korea completely destroys its missile and nuclear potential, Bolton
> answered positively.
>
> "Yes, I think that's what denuclearization means. We have very much
> in mind the Libya model [of complete elimination of weapons in question]
> from 2003, 2004 [when the country joined the UN convention on eliminating
> chemical weapons]… The Libyan program was much smaller, but that was
> basically the agreement that we made," he said as quoted by Fox News.
>
> [image: Surveillance]
> CC0 <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/> / PIXABAY
> <https://pixabay.com/en/hacker-cybercrime-security-network-2077138/>
> Little Help From My Friends: US Intel Requests Firms' Aid in Tracking
> Military Objects in N Korea - Reports
> <https://sputniknews.com/military/201804291064018046-us-intelligence-north-korea-nga-military-objects-tracking/>
> Bolton also confirmed that the United States would start lifting economic
> sanctions from North Korea only after full denuclearization.
>
> Last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that his country would
> stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles
> as well as shut down a nuclear test site. Trump has welcomed the
> announcement calling it a "big progress."
>
> On Friday, Trump said that he would hold a meeting with the North Korean
> leader in "the coming weeks," and that the location for the meeting had
> been narrowed down to two or three sites.
>
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