{"id":66845,"date":"2018-03-29T19:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T19:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/29\/kim-family-has-made-denuclearization-vows-in-china-before\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:33:31","slug":"kim-family-has-made-denuclearization-vows-in-china-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/29\/kim-family-has-made-denuclearization-vows-in-china-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim family has made denuclearization vows in China before"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 An enigmatic North Korean leader takes a secretive train trip to China to affirm fraternal ties and declare a commitment to denuclearization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It sounds like Kim Jong Un\u2019s visit this week, but his father and predecessor Kim Jong Il made similar declarations on a trip to Beijing, months before he died in 2011. Yet North Korea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/28\/ahead-of-trump-summit-new-activity-at-north-korea-nuke-site\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">nuclear weapons development<\/a> only speeded up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2018\/03\/28\/trump-good-chance-north-korean-leader-will-do-what-is-right\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump expressed optimism<\/a> Wednesday after the younger Kim\u2019s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying there\u2019s \u201ca good chance\u201d that Kim will \u201cdo what is right for his people and for humanity.\u201d But there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical that the U.S.-North Korean summit slated for May will produce the breakthrough that Washington wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a year of escalating tensions, Trump agreed to talks after South Korean officials relayed that Kim was committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/21\/north-korea-says-its-diplomatic-moves-are-not-a-sign-of-weakness\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">ridding the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons<\/a> and was willing to halt nuclear and missile tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/20\/us-south-korean-military-exercises-to-begin-april-1\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18079043532847.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US-South Korean military exercises to begin April 1<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">At a potentially pivotal moment of diplomacy with North Korea, the Pentagon said Monday that annual U.S.-South Korean military exercises that had been postponed for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will begin April 1.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That has tamped down fears of war that elevated as Trump and Kim traded threats and insults and North Korea demonstrated it was close to being able to strike the U.S. with a nuclear-tipped missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kim\u2019s meeting with Xi offered some reassurance to Washington that denuclearization will be up for negotiation if the first summit between American and North Korean leaders in seven decades takes place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18087297060423.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18087297060423.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18087297060423.jpg.jpg?resize=300,199 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18087297060423.jpg.jpg?resize=768,509 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this March 26, 2018, photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and his wife Ri Sol Ju, rear right, are greeted on arrival at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. (Korean Central News Agency\/Korea News Service via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But while Trump has elevated expectations of what that sit-down would achieve, North Korea has yet to spell out what it wants in return for abandoning a weapons program that Kim likely views as a guarantee for the survival of his totalitarian regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The readout of Kim\u2019s remarks to Xi as reported by China\u2019s state news agency Xinhua strongly indicates Pyongyang is looking for significant American concessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe issue of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula can be resolved,\u201d Kim was quoted as saying, \u201cif South Korea and the United States respond to our efforts with goodwill, create an atmosphere of peace and stability while taking progressive and synchronous measures for the realization of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To many North Korea watchers, that sounds like old wine in a new bottle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May 2011, the elder Kim, who was making what would be his final trip to China, told then-president Hu Jintao that the North was \u201cadhering to the goal of denuclearization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That came months after North Korea had revealed a uranium enrichment plant that gave it a second path for making fuel for atomic bombs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abraham Denmark, a former senior U.S. defense official, said the North\u2019s latest offer to \u201cdenuclearize\u201d still appears contingent on U.S. creating the right conditions. In the past, Pyongyang demanded that U.S. withdraw troops from the peninsula and end its security alliance with South Korea and the nuclear protection it offers its ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s possible that Kim Jong Un has a different meaning in mind,\u201d said Denmark, now director of the Asia program at the Wilson Center think tank. \u201cSo far it sounds like the same old tune.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ending six years of international seclusion, Kim was spirited into Beijing by special train under tight security like his father before him. He met with Xi, seeking to repair relations that have been frayed as China has supported tough U.N. sanctions and slashed trade with its wayward ally in frustration over its refusal to stop its provocative behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Kim\u2019s first foreign trip was a \u201chistoric step in the right direction\u201d and proof that a U.S.-led campaign of \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d of economic sanctions was working. Trump said the pressure would be maintained for now but offered an optimistic view of how he could achieve peace and denuclearization that eluded past administrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow there is a good chance that Kim Jong Un will do what is right for his people and for humanity. Look forward to our meeting!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s another way of looking at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It could be North Korea, not the U.S., that is calling the shots. When Kim offered an olive branch to South Korea in the new year, he also warned that the entire U.S. was within range of the North\u2019s atomic weapons. With that capability in hand, he may now be going on a diplomatic offensive, using it as leverage to win aid and security guarantees rather than intending to give it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s pick for national security adviser, John Bolton, is famously skeptical of diplomacy with North Korea. Just a month ago, he made the case for a pre-emptive military strike on the North. That raises questions about whether he might advocate for the same should Trump\u2019s summit with Kim fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank said in an analysis that by meeting Xi, Kim may be seeking an insurance policy that \u201ceven if summit talks fail with the U.S. that North Korea could still fall back on its relationship with China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a close ally of the president, is worried about a less-than-ideal outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said Wednesday that he\u2019s concerned that in his talks with Kim, Trump will focus on the intercontinental missiles that can reach the U.S. mainland and not the shorter-range missiles that threaten Japan and may \u201cend up accepting North Korea\u2019s possession of nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writer 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