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https://www.vox.com/2018/8/29/17795452/trump-north-korea-war-summit-singapore-promise
Exclusive: Trump promised Kim Jong Un he’d sign an agreement to end the Korean War
He hasn’t followed through yet — and North Korea talks may have stalled because of it.
By Alex Ward@AlexWardVoxalex.ward@vox.com Updated Aug 29, 2018, 4:02pm EDT
President Donald Trump promised North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore that he’d sign a declaration to end the Korean War. It hasn’t happened yet. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
President Donald Trump told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their Singapore summitin June that he’d sign a declaration to end the Korean War soon after their meeting, according to multiple sources familiar with the negotiations.
But since then, the Trump administration has repeatedly asked Pyongyang to dismantle most of its nuclear arsenal first, before signing such a document.
That decision is likely what has led to the current stalemate in negotiations between the two countries — and the increasingly hostile rhetoric from North Korea.
“It makes sense why the North Koreans are angry,” one source told me. “Having Trump promise a peace declaration and then moving the goalposts and making it conditional would be seen as the US reneging on its commitments.”
Here’s the background: North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, which started the war. The United States, as part of a United Nations force, intervened on behalf of South Korea, and China later intervened on behalf of the communist North. It was a bloody conflict that ultimately killed some 5 million soldiers and civilians.
Fighting ceased in 1953, but the warring parties only signed an armistice — a truce — which means the war technically continues to this day. Both Koreas still have troops and weaponry at or near the border, known as the Demilitarized Zone. This is one major reason North Korea has oriented its foreign policy around how to deter a future attack by the United States and South Korea, mostly by developing a strong nuclear program that includes around 65 nuclear warheads and missiles that can reach all parts of the US mainland.
But during a New Year’s Day address, Kim noted that he wanted to focus more on improving his country’s economy, which is one of the world’s poorest. To do so, experts tell me, Kim needs a peace declaration to end the Korean War. This would provide political cover for him to denuclearize part — or, less likely, all — of his arsenal.
