Source: Wall Street Journal
February 19 2019
The U.S. government is mulling a liaison office in North Korea, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The plan would allow North Korea to establish a similar office in the U.S., said a Trump administration official.
The offer is one of many proposals that could come up in meetings between North Korean and U.S. negotiators in the run up to a meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un later this month in Hanoi, Vietnam.
North Korean officials are said to be considering the idea and have discussed it with U.S. officials, reported CNN.
The prospects of the proposal are unclear. North Korea torpedoed a similar effort in 1994 after the U.S. sought to use diplomatic pouches to bring in materials and documents without inspection.
Such an office would be useful for U.S. weapons inspectors operating in the country, said Gary Samore, a senior National Security Agency official who worked on weapons of mass destruction during the Obama administration.
The proposal may be beneficial but does not address the economic concessions that North Korea is interested in, said analysts.
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