Stephen Biegun, the U.S. special envoy for North Korea, will arrive in Seoul on Sunday for a three-day visit aimed at keeping the dialogue with Pyongyang alive, South Korea’s foreign ministry announced Friday. ADOn Thursday, North Korea’s foreign ministry issued another angry denunciation of the United States, especially of Washington’s criticism of its weapons tests at the United Nations Security Council. ADJackson said Kim had been allowed to conduct diplomacy on his own terms last year, launching a charm offensive after securing a good-enough nuclear deterrent in late 2017. “The very fact that Kim is trying to coerce the U.S. is proof that he thinks he has a strong bargaining hand. So the U.S. has to ask where this ends because this is going in a predictably explosive direction.

Source: Washington Post December 14, 2019 07:48 UTC