Quad leaders urge North Korea to engage in dialogue
The leaders of US, Australia, Japan, and India -- have called on North Korea to abide by the UN Security Council resolutions that prohibit its ballistic missile tests.
The leaders of US, Australia, Japan, and India -- have called on North Korea to abide by the UN Security Council resolutions that prohibit its ballistic missile tests.
Talks on denuclearization have been largely deadlocked since a second summit between Trump and Kim in Hanoi collapsed at the start of this year.
Negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington have been gridlocked since a second summit between the North’s leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in February ended without a deal.
Engagement with the North is hugely preferable to the uneasy status quo on the Korean peninsula that carries with it a heightened risk of conflict escalation.
‘’Defence industry cooperation is an exemplary win-win field for our two countries,’’ South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-Wha said at a joint press conference with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj after the two leaders co-chaired the 9th meeting of the India-Korea joint commission.
“The US thinks that its oft-repeated 'sanctions and pressure' leads to 'denuclearisation.' We cannot help laughing at such a foolish idea,” it said.
Stephen Biegun expressed confidence on behalf of Trump's administration that Pyongyang would give up its nuclear arms, despite an ongoing deadlock on the issue between the two sides.
The North and South Korea also announced measures to reduce conventional military threats, such as creating buffer zones along their land and sea boundaries and a no-fly zone above the border, removing 11 front-line guard posts by December, and demining sections of the Demilitarized Zone.
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Kim Jong-un said he and Moon Jae-in agreed to remove all nuclear weapons and threats from the Korean Peninsula
