As North and South Korea Reciprocate Offers of Talks, Trump Responds: “I Too Have a Nuclear Button”
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While the U.S. has been cold toward Kim Jong Un's offer of Olympics talks with South Korea, Seoul has extended the hand of full-fledged diplomacy.
By Telesur
South Korea has responded to North Korean leader Kim Jong- un‘s diplomatic overture with an offer Tuesday to hold high-level talks between the countries on the border next week.
On New Year’s Day, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un announced that the country will seek participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in South Korea between Feb. 9-25, foretelling 2018 as a “year of reconciliation” even as he noted that he now had a “nuclear button” on his desk, referring to the country’s now-powerful nuclear deterrence and weapons delivery system.
In a Twitter message posted Tuesday night, U.S. Preside...