{"id":17071,"date":"2018-06-15T01:49:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T01:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/06\/15\/us-no-sanctions-relief-before-north-korea-denuclearizes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:37:03","slug":"us-no-sanctions-relief-before-north-korea-denuclearizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/15\/us-no-sanctions-relief-before-north-korea-denuclearizes\/","title":{"rendered":"US: No sanctions relief before North Korea denuclearizes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIJING \u2014 The United States will not ease sanctions against North Korea until it denuclearizes, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday, as he reassured key Asian allies that President Donald Trump had not backed down on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/06\/12\/pentagon-assessing-trump-directive-to-cancel-korea-military-exercises\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" data-original-title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"popover979770\">Pyongyang\u2019s weapons program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pompeo, meeting in Seoul with top South Korean and Japanese diplomats, put a more sober spin on Trump\u2019s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after the president\u2019s comments fueled unease in Washington, Tokyo and Seoul. He said Trump\u2019s curious claim that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/13\/trump-claim-raises-eyebrows-north-korea-no-longer-a-nuke-threat\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">North\u2019s nuclear threat was over<\/a> was issued with \u201ceyes wide open,\u201d and brushed off a North Korean state media report suggesting Trump would grant concessions even before the North fully rids itself of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to get denuclearization,\u201d Pompeo said in the South Korean capital. \u201cOnly then will there be relief from the sanctions.\u201d<\/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\/06\/14\/trump-on-video-saluting-north-korean-general-at-summit\/\" 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=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trump_salute.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\">Trump on video saluting North Korean general at summit<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Trump returned the salute as Kim Jong Un smiled in the background.<\/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\">Diverging from the president, Harry Harris, Trump\u2019s choice to become ambassador to South Korea, said the U.S. must continue to worry about the nuclear threat from North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Harris, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/asia-pacific\/2018\/06\/12\/trumps-nominee-for-ambassador-to-south-korea-was-a-vocal-supporter-of-joint-military-drills\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">former commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific<\/a>, endorsed Trump\u2019s plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/06\/14\/report-south-korea-military-exercises-suspended-indefinitely\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">pause major military exercises<\/a> with the South, saying the U.S. is in a \u201cdramatically different place\u201d from where it was a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pompeo emphasized that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/24\/ahead-of-summits-us-tones-down-war-games-with-south-korea\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">the drills<\/a>, which North Korea claims to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/14\/trumps-halt-of-war-games-could-weaken-defenses-in-korea\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">preparation for a northward invasion<\/a>, could still be resumed if the mercurial Kim stops negotiating in good faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18165125959666.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18165125959666.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18165125959666.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18165125959666.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, left, speaks as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha listen during a joint press conference following their meeting at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, June 14, 2018. (Ahn Young-joon\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The words of reassurance from Pompeo came as diplomacy continued at an intense pace after Tuesday\u2019s summit in Singapore, the first between a sitting American president and North Korea\u2019s leader in six decades of hostility. In the village of Panmunjom along the North-South border, the rival Koreas on Thursday held their first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/15\/koreas-agree-to-restore-military-communication-lines\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">high-level military talks<\/a> since 2007, focused on reducing tensions across their heavily fortified border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pompeo flew from Seoul to China\u2019s capital, Beijing, later Thursday for a meeting with President Xi Jinping, whose country is believed to wield considerable influence with North Korea as its chief ally and economic lifeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI also want to thank China and President Xi for his role in helping bring North Korea to the negotiating table,\u201d Pompeo told reporters.<\/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\/06\/12\/trumps-vow-to-end-military-drills-with-seoul-stuns-a-region\/\" 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=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18163332842395.jpg_7889d4.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\">Trump\u2019s vow to end military drills with Seoul stuns a region<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">President Donald Trump rocked the region with the stunning announcement Tuesday that he was halting annual U.S.-South Korean military drills \u2014 and wants to remove the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in the South as a deterrent against North Korea.<\/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\">Pompeo thanked Beijing for its continuing efforts to help achieve the \u201ccomplete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea.\u201d He said both sides had agreed that sanctions would not be eased until that\u2019s achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described the Singapore summit as having \u201cgreat historic significance\u201d with the potential to lead to \u201cenduring peace.\u201d Wang said the U.S. should continue to \u201cwork through China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pompeo said there was still a risk that denuclearization might not be achieved and there was more work to be done by Beijing and Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang reiterated China\u2019s support for a political settlement, while also pointing to an eventual lifting of U.N. Security Council economic sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe believe that the sanctions themselves are not the end,\u201d Geng said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18165392730049.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18165392730049.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18165392730049.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18165392730049.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, chats with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, June 14, 2018. (Andy Wong\/Pool via APl)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has been praised by Trump for ramping up economic pressure on the North, which the U.S. believes helped coax Kim to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For its part, Beijing has broadly welcomed Trump\u2019s diplomacy with Kim. The summit in Singapore marked a reduction in tensions \u2014 a sea change from last fall, when North Korea was conducting nuclear and missile tests, and Trump and Kim were trading threats and insults that stoked fears of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kim is now promising to work toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula, and state media heralded the meeting as victorious, with photos of Kim standing side-by-side with Trump splashed across newspapers in Pyongyang. On Thursday, North Koreans finally got a glimpse of video of Trump and Kim together, as official Korean Central Television broadcast the first footage of Kim\u2019s trip to Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet there were persistent questions about whether Trump had given away too much in return for too little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"apester-media\" data-media-id=\"5b203074ed4c5314a686450f\" height=\"440\"><\/div><script async src=\"\/\/static.apester.com\/js\/sdk\/v2.0\/apester-javascript-sdk.min.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s announcement minutes after the summit\u2019s conclusion that he would halt the \u201cprovocative\u201d joint military drills were a shock to South Korea and caught much of the U.S. military off guard, too. Pyongyang has long sought an end to the exercises it considers rehearsals for an invasion, but U.S. treaty allies Japan and South Korea view them as critical elements of their own national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Pompeo had some explaining to do as he traveled to Seoul to brief the allies on what transpired in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In public, at least, South Korea\u2019s leader cast the summit\u2019s outcome as positive during a short meeting with Pompeo at the Blue House, South Korea\u2019s presidential palace. President Moon Jae-in, an avowed supporter of engagement with North Korea, called it \u201ca truly historic feat\u201d that had \u201cmoved us from the era of hostility towards the era of dialogue, of peace and prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, there were signs as Pompeo met later with the top Japanese and South Korean diplomats that concerns about the freeze had not been fully resolved. South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told reporters afterward that the military drills issue \u201cwas not discussed in depth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a matter that military officials from South Korea and the United States will have to discuss further and coordinate,\u201d Kang said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. has stationed combat troops in South Korea since the end of the Korean War and has used them in a variety of drills. The next scheduled major exercise, involving tens of thousands of troops, normally would be held in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the Trump-Kim summit concluded, the baton was being passed to lower-level U.S. and North Korean officials, who Pompeo said would likely resume meeting as early as the next week to hash out details of a disarmament deal, sure to be a complex and contentious process. He said the U.S. was hopeful North Korea would take \u201cmajor\u201d disarmament steps before the end of Trump\u2019s first term in office, which concludes in January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Lederman reported from Seoul. Associated Press writers Kim Tong-hyung and Youkyung Lee in Seoul, Gillian Wong in Beijing, Matthew Pennington and Lolita C. 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