Talks on denuclearization of Korean Peninsula gaining speed PART 2
- 6 years ago
Speaking of PVID, what makes PVID so different from CVID, or 'Complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization'?
Why has the goal of PVID pressed the regime much more than the past?
PVID refers to permanent, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used that term for the first time at his inauguration speech.
Now, using the word 'permanent' means that Washington wants to get rid of the possibility that North Korea could resume its nuclear development in the future.
It presses Pyongyang to have thousands of its experts leave the regime... and abandon all of its WMDs -- that's not only its nuclear weapons but also its ICBMs, and biological and chemical weapons.
So that raises the bar on the denuclearization negotiations with the North, which ended up rather deepening the rift between Pyongyang and Washington.
Some experts view that North Korea and the U.S. decided to focus on nuclear weapons and related facilities for now and not expand the agenda further.
Secretary Pompeo returned to the goal of CVID recently,... stressing it on his way to Pyongyang last week... and this weekend after meeting his South Korean counterpart.
Why has the goal of PVID pressed the regime much more than the past?
PVID refers to permanent, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used that term for the first time at his inauguration speech.
Now, using the word 'permanent' means that Washington wants to get rid of the possibility that North Korea could resume its nuclear development in the future.
It presses Pyongyang to have thousands of its experts leave the regime... and abandon all of its WMDs -- that's not only its nuclear weapons but also its ICBMs, and biological and chemical weapons.
So that raises the bar on the denuclearization negotiations with the North, which ended up rather deepening the rift between Pyongyang and Washington.
Some experts view that North Korea and the U.S. decided to focus on nuclear weapons and related facilities for now and not expand the agenda further.
Secretary Pompeo returned to the goal of CVID recently,... stressing it on his way to Pyongyang last week... and this weekend after meeting his South Korean counterpart.