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General Category => World News => Topic started by: 240B on May 27, 2018, 10:23:35 pm
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The Washington Post
By Anna Fifield and Joby Warrick
May 27 at 5:31 PM
SEOUL — A team of U.S. officials crossed into North Korea on Sunday for talks to prepare for a summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un, as both sides pressed ahead with arrangements despite the question marks hanging over the meeting.
Sung Kim, a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea and former nuclear negotiator with the North, has been called in from his post as envoy to the Philippines to lead the preparations, according to a person familiar with the arrangements.
The talks are focused on what would be the substance of a potential summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un — the issue of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
After Saturday’s surprise inter-Korean talks, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Kim was still committed to the “complete denuclearization†of the Korean Peninsula. But Moon declined to define “complete denuclearization,†suggesting that there are still fundamental gaps on the key issue bedeviling preparations.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/us-officials-hold-summit-preparation-talks-despite-uncertainty-surrounding-meeting/2018/05/27/870c8196-61ae-11e8-b166-fea8410bcded_story.html
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Well, duh. That's why it takes a lot of work to get to any reasonable solution.
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But Moon declined to define “complete denuclearization,†suggesting that there are still fundamental gaps on the key issue bedeviling preparations.
The only deviling that interests Kim involves eggs.