Time running out on North Korea’s deadline to US on nukes.
Donald Trump
As the deadline approaches, and as the North's propaganda machine cranks up its warnings, here's a look at how high-stakes diplomatic wrangling in one of the most dangerous corners of the world might play out:North Korea has previously issued deadlines it doesn't follow through on as a way to try to get what it wants in negotiations.
“The U.S. only seeks to earn time, pretending it has made progress in settling the issue of the Korean Peninsula," Kim Kye Gwan, a senior adviser to the North's foreign ministry, said last week."As we have got nothing in return, we will no longer gift the U.S. president with something he can boast of.
Kim may also try to further bolster ties and secure aid from China — North Korea’s most important ally and economic lifeline — and Russia while testing shorter-range missiles, according to Moon Seong Mook, an analyst at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy in Seoul.
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