Begin typing your search above and press return to search.
proflie-avatar
Login
exit_to_app
Democracy that banks on the electorate
access_time 28 March 2024 5:34 AM GMT
Lessons to learn from Moscow terror attack
access_time 27 March 2024 6:10 AM GMT
Gaza
access_time 26 March 2024 4:34 AM GMT
The poison is not in words, but inside
access_time 25 March 2024 5:42 AM GMT
A witchhunt, plain and simple
access_time 23 March 2024 9:35 AM GMT
DEEP READ
Schools breeding hatred
access_time 14 Sep 2023 10:37 AM GMT
Ukraine
access_time 16 Aug 2023 5:46 AM GMT
Ramadan: Its essence and lessons
access_time 13 March 2024 9:24 AM GMT
When ‘Jai Sree Ram’ becomes a death call
access_time 15 Feb 2024 9:54 AM GMT
exit_to_app
Homechevron_rightWorldchevron_rightUS discussing...

US discussing exchanging liaison officers with N. Korea

text_fields
bookmark_border
US discussing exchanging liaison officers with N. Korea
cancel

Washington: The US and North Korea were seriously considering exchanging liaison officers, an incremental step towards normalising relations while the two sides negotiate to curtail Pyongyang's nuclear and missile forces, informed sources told CNN.

The development comes ahead of President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's second summit slated to take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27-28. They first met in Singapore last June.

On the US side, the sources told CNN on Monday that there would be several liaison officers sent to set up office in North Korea, led by a senior foreign service officer who speaks Korean, if this plan were to move forward.

A similar agreement was made by the Bill Clinton administration in 1994, with the "Agreed Framework" leading to extensive negotiating over exchanging liaison offices in each country, beginning with up to seven officers in each. 

At the time, the US even went so far as to sign a lease for space in the German mission. North Korea also looked at possible sites in Washington, D.C.

But by the end of the following year, North Korea cancelled the plan, thought to be because of tensions after a US helicopter was shot down when it crossed over the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea.

The sources also said that the proposal might be discussed further when Stephen Biegun, the US special envoy for Pyongyang, meets his North Korean counterpart in Hanoi before the scheduled summit take place.

The State Department and North Korea were yet to officially comment on the development.

Trump officially announced the second summit at his State of the Union address on February 5, touting his administration's efforts on North Korea while noting that "much work remains to be done".

 

 

Show Full Article
News Summary - US discussing exchanging liaison officers with N. Korea
Next Story