US president-elect could seek fresh dialogue with North Korean leader Kim: South Korea

Published January 13,2025

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Incoming US President Donald Trump may search contemporary dialogue with North Korea‘s chief Kim Jong-un after the previous’s inauguration on Jan. 20, the South Korean spy company mentioned on Monday.

Trump, who met with Kim 3 times throughout his first presidency, is predicted to debate a “small deal” on the Pyongyang’s nuclear program, the Seoul-based Yonhap News reported.

“If US believes it is difficult to expect North Korea’s complete denuclearization in a short period of time, a ‘small deal’ — small-scaled negotiations for freezing the North’s nuclear programs or nuclear disarmament — may be possible,” the spy company informed lawmakers.

Kim and Trump held two summits and met 3 times in Singapore, Vietnam, and on the Demilitarized Zone, which divides the Korean Peninsula, throughout the Republican winner’s first time period. The denuclearization talks have been stalled after the 2019 Hanoi summit.

Over the previous 4 years after Trump was ousted within the 2020 presidential elections, North Korea has closed its ranks with Russia with which it signed a army pact in June final 12 months, requiring Moscow and Pyongyang to increase army support in case of an assault by a 3rd occasion.

The US, on the opposite aspect, underneath the outgoing Biden administration closed ranks with South Korea and Japan — forming a trilateral alliance in opposition to Pyongyang, together with initiating the primary joint army drills on the Korean Peninsula.

More than two weeks after Trump received the Nov. 5 presidential polls, the North Korean chief Kim recalled his negotiations with the US, in an obvious first response to the Republican winner.

“We have already gone to every length in negotiations with the US, and what was certain from the outcome was … the unchanging invasive and hostile policy toward North Korea,” Kim mentioned in mid-December.

During his go to to Seoul final week, outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed that the Biden administration had made “multiple efforts to engage DPRK (North Korea), without conditions at many occasions.”

“The only response we got is more and more provocative responses, including missile launches,” he mentioned, utilizing initials of North Korea’s official title.