米朝首脳会談のバックグラウンドブリーフィング

本物か分からないが、米国務省高官によるハノイ米朝会談のバックグランウンドブリーフの一部を入手した。

これを読むと、北朝鮮は全ての制裁の解除を求めたのではなく、一部だが、米国側がこれを「事実上全て」と考えたと分かる。

だから北朝鮮の言い分は、でたらめとはいえない。双方が都合のいい言い方をしているということだ。

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesperson
For Immediate Release
  BACKGROUND BRIEFING
February 28, 2019
Senior State Department Official
Remarks to Traveling Press　March 1, 2019
Peninsula Hotel
Manila, Philippines
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL:  Okay, so on background, as the President said in his press conference,he had an excellent set of talks with Kim Jong-un.  They were productive, they were constructive, and we made progress in a number of areas between the two sides.  It was worth the time to have the two leaders together.  During the course of the discussions,the North Koreans made clear that any future steps on denuclearization would require the lifting of sanctions.  As the President said in his press conference,

the North Koreans basically asked for the lifting of all sanctions

.

Now, Ri Yong-ho, the foreign minister of North Korea, clarified their position overnight in a press conference, and I just want to clarify what he was saying.  The - what the North Koreansasked, and what they have been asking for several weeks in our working-level negotiations, is the lifting of the United Nations Security Council sanctions imposed since March of 2016.