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The Window Is Closing for a Negotiated North Korean DenuclearizationBruce KlingnerPosted: Nov 01, 2019 12:01 AMNorth Korea and the United States gave strikingly different interpretations of the collapse of working-level denuclearization talks in Stockholm. Pyongyang characteristically took a maximalist approach, both in its rhetoric and its demands. Having commanded the U.S. to adopt a totally “new method of calculation,†the regime disparaged Washington’s new proposals. North Korean negotiator Kim Myong-gil declared that denuclearization is possible only after the cessation of all U.S.–South Korean joint military exercises, while North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song demanded an end to all sanctions. The Trump administration provided a more optimistic spin on the meeting, rebuffing North Korea’s assertion that it had not provided a new proposal. The State Department commented that the U.S. “brought creative ideas [and] a number of new initiatives.†Read more at: https://townhall.com/columnists/bruceklingner/2019/11/01/the-window-is-closing-for-a-negotiated-north-korean-denuclearization-n2555695
