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Pyongyang is waiting for Washington to take the next steps to advance negotiations on denuclearization and peace, while Kim travels to Beijing for yet another summit with Chinese President Xi. Following concerns raised by a U.S. senator and OCHA, the United States has revised its humanitarian assistance policy toward North Korea.
As U.S.-North Korean negotiations stall, South Korean President Moon Jae-in distanced himself from the Trump administration's prerequisites for sanction relief and North Korea, China, and Russia issued a trilateral statement emphasizing the importance of a “peaceful, political, and diplomatic” settlement to denuclearization and building a peace regime on peninsula.
Our newest regular news digest for readers covers the latest updates on diplomatic efforts between the United States, North Korea, and South Korea, and the path to the denuclearization of the peninsula. This issue highlights U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's trip to Pyongyang this week, details progress and obstacles since the Singapore Summit, and provides a backgrounder on North Korea's nuclear weapons.