If North Korea's 'Christmas gift' turns out to be a nuclear or long-range missile test, Harry Kazianis says 'get ready for maximum pressure 2.0: More sanctions, more nasty tweets and threats of nuclear war.'
President Donald Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un are both facing substantial pressure to come up with some sort of agreement to advance their historic denuclearization-for-peace process by the end of the year, but experts feared a more dangerous outcome as both sides only ratcheted up tensions in the final weeks of 2019.noticeably running out of patience
Vice Foreign Minister Ri Thae Song warned last week that it's up to the U.S. which"Christmas gift" it will receive this holiday season and signs are mounting that an exasperated Kim was soon ready to break his self-imposed moratorium on testing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
But this would probably prove a disappointment for both men, who have set out to make history by bringing together two nations still technically at war since the 1950s conflict that helped set off the Cold War. As the days of December wear on, United States Institute of Peace senior North Korea expert Frank Aum said both men were likely under stress.
"I think President Trump also feels a certain amount of pressure to reach a deal with North Korea. He wants to be able to tout a foreign policy victory and avoid a major North Korean provocation during an election year," Aum said, noting, however, that"it's very unlikely, if not impossible, for another US-DPRK summit before the end of the year" due to the sheer logistics of planning such an event.
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