Coercion of Euna

Comrade Kim promises not to blow up and not launch - against the backdrop of preparation for a historical meeting with Trump

On April 21, North Korea promised not to experience nuclear charges anymore, not to launch ballistic missiles and made an obligation in a “transparent form” to close her only pungeri nuclear landfill in the extreme north-east of the country. This was stated following the work of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Korea Labor Party, which was the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong -un.

He thereby formulated his starting negotiation position on the eve of the upcoming personal meeting with President of South Korea Moon Jaeu on the eve of April 27. And, most importantly, on the eve of an unprecedented event-the first in the history of the American-Sevan-Korean summit, which should take place in late May or early June. The deadlines have not yet been defined, as well as the venue of the meeting. Sweden, and Mongolia, and the village in the demilitarized zone between the DPRK and South Korea are called. However, informed sources in Tokyo assure that at his recent meeting with the former CIA chef and future US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, Kim Jong -un, Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang very hard.

The promise to close the Pungeri training ground is good news for the inhabitants of the Russian Primorye, since the venue for all six North Korean nuclear tests is in dangerous proximity to this part of the Russian Federation. However, in general, the current promises of Kim Jong -un are sounded by a repetition of the past - the DPRK, even with the late father of the current leader of the country, has repeatedly taken over similar obligations. And each time they violated them, winning the time for a stubborn continuation of her nuclear missile program.

However, in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo, they understand that speech at the Plenum is only an underestimated starting bar before the start of the negotiation process. The same Pompeo, as Japanese sources assure,

Kim Jong -un, in general form, spoke about his readiness to make a complete rejection of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees, the abolition of suffocating economic sanctions, and the signing of a comprehensive peace treaty

Instead of the current shaky ceasefire agreement, which has been in force since the end of the Korean War in 1953.

According to Pyongyang, this should be established by the establishment of diplomatic relations with the United States, South Korea and Japan, and the influx of economic assistance and investment. “We concentrate our efforts on building a powerful socialist economy, significantly improving the standards of life of the population by mobilizing all human and material resources of the country,” said Kim Jong-un, justifying the benefits of his decision to abandon the further active conduct of the nuclear missile program.

The cessation of tests has a specific military meaning - the DPRK last year has held successful launches of prototypes of intercontinental ballistic missiles that potentially capable of striking at any point on the territory of the United States. However, experts agree that these devices are still imperfect, technologies for their reliable re -entering the atmosphere after a flight in space are not worked out. To bring missiles to mind, new trials are needed, and the rejection of them will be a direct gift from Trump - Pyongyang, they say, will not create a weapon that can hit the United States. Tokyo believes that the US president may be delighted with this option by submitting it as his gigantic diplomatic victory.

At the same time, in the same Tokyo they fear that overboard the first arrangement may turn out to be more than a thousand medium and low -range missiles that can be struck by both Korea and Japan.

Comrade Kim did not say anything at the Plenum of the Central Committee and about the nuclear charges available to him-according to various estimates, there are somewhere in the dozen area.

However, on April 20, at a meeting in Washington, US Minister of Defense Jim Mattis assured his Japanese colleague Itsunori Onoder that President Trump would demand from North Korea to eliminate all types of weapons of mass destruction and all ballistic missiles, including medium and low range. The head of the Japanese military department during the conversation actively approved the recent American blow to the objects of the forces of President Bashar al -Assad in Syria, emphasizing that this was a “good signal” for Pyongyang.

In any case, as Tokyo believes, the tactics of North Korea will be to turn negotiations from the United States into a long process. Kim Jong -un, according to experts, will also make all his strength to make the most favorable impression on President Trump during the first meeting.