Is President Obama seeking a nuclear deal with North Korea too?

2015-07-27T07:31:53-04:00

The recent nuclear deal with Iran showed that the United States can be flexible with a willing counterpart, including North Korea if it decides it wants talks on its nuclear program, a U.S. envoy said on Monday.

North Korea has said it was not interested in an Iran-like dialogue with the United States to give up its nuclear capabilities, which it said were an "essential deterrence" against hostile U.S. policy.

Despite that, Sydney Seiler, U.S. special envoy for now-defunct six-party talks on ending the North's nuclear program, said the United states left the door open to talks with the North when it is willing to end its diplomatic isolation.

"The Iran deal demonstrates the value and possibilities that negotiation bring," Seiler told reporters in the South Korean capital, Seoul.

"It demonstrates again our willingness, when we have a willing counterpart, and it demonstrates our flexibility when the DPRK makes a decision that it wants to take a different path," he said, referring to North Korea by the initials of its formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Seiler is on a trip to the region that will include stops in China and Japan, is the latest in a series of visits by U.S. nuclear envoys aimed at trying to jump start the North Korean talks which broke down in 2008.

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U.S. would show flexibility in nuclear talks with North Korea: envoy

Response by Capt Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 27 at 2015 7:37 AM

2015-07-27T07:37:39-04:00

I truly hope not.

Response by SCPO David Lockwood made Jul 27 at 2015 7:42 AM

2015-07-27T07:42:53-04:00

Nothing but trouble and no good can come from this. What are our leaders thinking of???? Have they lost their doggone minds???

Response by SGT Ben Keen made Jul 27 at 2015 7:50 AM

2015-07-27T07:50:38-04:00

Personally, I think any sort of deal with North Korea would be insanely dangerous but it would be good to see North Korea come back to the table to at least discuss other matters.

Response by SSgt Alex Robinson made Jul 27 at 2015 7:52 AM

2015-07-27T07:52:01-04:00

It would not surprise me

Response by CAPT Gary Foster made Jul 27 at 2015 8:26 AM

2015-07-27T08:26:10-04:00

For whatever reason, those of us who can clearly see the dangers presented in the deals with Iran and now possibly NK, don't have a voice. Too many Americans have put their trust in our current Administration, and it is quite frankly hard to watch. Iran continues to taunt us, claiming we are still the great satan and that we cannot be trusted. Iran's leader tweeted out a picture of our President with a gun to his head. Who in their right mind talks civility with these people? They still hate us and they always will, so why do we continue to try to soften the sanctions and clear their way to a bomb? Reminds me of the old cliche: "The blind leading the blind."

Response by SGM Steve Wettstein made Jul 27 at 2015 9:39 AM

2015-07-27T09:39:54-04:00

Clinton tried and failed to control the NKs nuclear program. I really hope they don't try with this regime.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 5 at 2015 5:19 PM

2015-09-05T17:19:18-04:00

GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad COL Mikel J. Burroughs I think their leader is either mentally unstable or crazy like a fox, either way I wouldn't trust anything he signed or agreed to.