NOORD-KOREA
Goedkeuring gesprekken Trump-Kim talks
June 12, 2018 - Volgens een peiling van het Pew Research Center zeggen zeven van de tien Amerikanen directe gesprekken te steunen tussen de VS en Noord-Korea over diens nucleair programma, maar velen twijfelen of deze zinvol zullen zijn.
Following Tuesday’s unprecedented meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, both sides pledged to work toward the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and to begin high-level negotiations.
However, the summit produced few specific new commitments from Pyongyang to surrender its nuclear weapons, pushing any details on timing and verification of disarmament to future negotiations.
A document signed by Trump and Kim provided little on how to make the denuclearisation process “complete, verifiable and irreversible” -- long-stated U.S. goals.