CHINA-US: US-NORTH KOREA SUMMIT TALKS ON JUNE 12
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Writing in the Washington Post on June 10, 2018 former Chinese Vice Foreign Minister and former member of the Six Party Talks Ms Fu Ying said of the impending Summit talks of June 12 as "an unprecedented opportunity for peaceful resolution has emerged". She said there had been a change in the US mindset, though it continued to impose more stringent sanctions on North Korea. She said "what Kim Jong Un has been after is no different from what his father and even grandfather had always wanted: national and regime security. No matter what North Korea does — be it nuclear development or abandonment — it would be for the same purpose. So, Pyongyang’s calculations are not difficult to gauge". Cautioning both sides against falling into the trap of not understanding the other, she advised both to prepare for lengthy negotiations and recalled the Chinese saying “Three feet of ice does not form in a single cold day.” She claimed too that China had always looked forward for a peaceful Korean Peninsula.
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