With the US strategy failing to relieve the diplomatic deadlock with North Korea, John Bolton says US will consider sanctions relief for performance of denuclearization by North Korea. According to the NPR transcript of the broadcast he said of a potential second summit meeting:
Well, I don't think the president views it as rewarding him. The issue is not simply what North Korea says. We've heard them say for decades that they're willing to give up their nuclear program. What we need to see is performance. And when we get performance then we can look at removing the economic sanctions.
North Korea has been unresponsive for weeks to South Korean and US overtures. North Korea's conspicuous silence has put the US on notice of failed diplomacy despite statements by President Trump and President Moon Jae In aimed at getting the stalemated negotiations back in motion. Previous public statements from US officials have all emphasized that only final full verifiable and irreversible denuclearization (FFVID) would result in sanctions relief. The VOA Korean language video broadcast on Dec. 7, continued to refer to the FFVID formulation when reporting on the Pompeo meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung Hwa in the US on December 6.
According to Channel A analysts, this statement by Bolton offers the possibility of breaking the impasse with North Korea. This possibility was entirely missing from contemporaneous VOA Korean language news on US Korean relations. Top Ten analysts described the atypical statement from Bolton as sweet sounds coming from the sour tempered Bolton's lips to entice North Korea back to negotiating table. Channel A News analysts suggested that the potential for step by step implementation of sanctions relief in response to similar trust building measures on denuclearization undertaken by North Korea might break the current negotiating deadlock. One might think that this was just a loose use of words by the National Security Advisor. However, another development suggests that a softening of the US position is in process to break the deadlock.
At the same time the South Korean Chosun Ilbo is reporting today that the large scale joint US ROK spring Foal Eagle exercises will be canceled for this April 2019 in the hope of a second US-DPRK summit. The South Korean armed forces will carry out the exercise independently.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/12/07/2018120701403.html
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