'Recognise North Korea' Kim Jong-un demands
Donald Trump's respect KIM Jong-un is determined to get recognition
from the United States and hopes his nuclear provocations will get him the respect he wants,
an expert has claimed. North Korea has wanted diplomatic relations
with the US for decades, and is desperate to be recognised as its equal. Dr Ramon Pacheco Pardo, a senior lecturer
in international relations at Kings College London, and an expert on North Korea, told
Express.Co.Uk secretive dictator Kim Jong-un wants the US to treat North Korea as an equal. He said: What North Korea really wants
is recognition.
From their perspective this means two things:
one of them is diplomatic recognition and relations with the US, and right now it also
wants recognition as a nuclear state. If you look at North Korea going all the
way back to the 1970s, they were always asking for recognition, they always wanted
diplomatic relations with the US. And in the 1990s and 2000s, the US was
willing to give this. But the question is what is the US willing
to give in return? Is it economic aid, is it removing sanctions,
is it recognition of North Korea as a normal state? He said he expected North Korea and the Donald
Trump-led US government to end up hashing out these details around the negotiating table.
Dr Pacheco also branded the Obama era a disaster
for North Korea, as Barack Obamas refusal to negotiate with Kim provoked his frenzied
nuclear development in a bid for attention. He said: If you look at Clinton or Bush,
they both said there would be no talks and they ended up talking to North Korea. Obama didnt do so officially, though
he did unofficially, and this proved to be a disaster, because North Korea developed
a nuclear missile programme. I wouldnt be surprised if Trump agreed
to sit down and negotiate, because he has said all options are on the table, and that
includes diplomacy.
Dr Pacheco also explained how fears of a regime
change had fuelled Kims arms race. Kim draws parallels between his situation
and that of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was removed from power and killed
by his own people after giving up his weapons of mass destruction. North Kores state media mentions Gaddafi
often, as the Libyan leader gave up his weapons to normalise relations with the US, much as
earlier Kim rulers were prepared to do. Kim apparently believes there is a direct
link between Gaddafi giving up the bomb and his murder at the hands of his own people
a decade later, he claimed..
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