{"id":22617,"date":"2017-02-20T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=22617"},"modified":"2017-02-20T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:41:17","slug":"washington-prepares-to-bring-north-koreans-to-u-s-for-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/washington-prepares-to-bring-north-koreans-to-u-s-for-talks.html","title":{"rendered":"Washington prepares to bring North Koreans to U.S. for talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Washington prepares to bring North Koreans to U.S. for talks<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Washington prepares to bring North Koreans to U.S. for talks:-<\/strong> Preparations are under way to bring senior North Korean officials to the United States for talks with former U.S. officials, the first such meeting in more than five years, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The talks would be the clearest indication yet that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants to communicate with the new Trump administration.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Planning for the &quot;Track 1.5 talks&quot; is still in a preparatory stage, the Post reported, citing multiple people with knowledge of the arrangements.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">That name, reflecting planned contact between former U.S. officials and current North Korean ones, is a reference to what are known as &quot;Track 2&quot; talks involving former officials on both sides.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The U.S. State Department has not yet approved the North Koreans&#39; visas for the talks, the newspaper said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">A State Department spokesman commented to Reuters only that Track 2 meetings &quot;routinely&quot; take place on a variety of topics around the world and occur independent of the U.S. government.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">A White House official commented that the U.S. government had no plans to meet with North Korea.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">North Korea&#39;s testing of an intermediate-range ballistic missile drew international condemnation last week. President Donald Trump told a news conference after the test: Obviously North Korea is a big, big problem and we will deal with that very strongly.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-northkorea-idUSKBN15Z04C<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/washington-prepares-to-bring-north-koreans-to-u-s-for-talks.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington prepares to bring North Koreans to U.S. for talks Washington prepares to bring North Koreans to U.S. for talks:- Preparations are under way to bring senior North Korean officials to the United States for talks with former U.S. officials, the first such meeting in more than five years, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[6452,13961,9013],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-local-news","tag-washington-prepares-to-bring-north-koreans-to-u-s-for-talks","tag-world-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}