{"id":12188,"date":"2019-12-16T14:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/16\/us-north-korea-envoy-dismisses-year-end-deadline-for-talks-breakthrough"},"modified":"2019-12-16T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T05:03:53","slug":"us-north-korea-envoy-dismisses-year-end-deadline-for-talks-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12188","title":{"rendered":"US North Korea envoy dismisses year-end deadline for talks breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Biegun says on visit to Seoul that recent statements by Pyongyang were \u2018so hostile and negative\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The US special envoy for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> has dismissed a year-end deadline set by Pyongyang to make concessions in stalled nuclear talks, but said Washington was ready to resume negotiations at any time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be absolutely clear. The US does not have a deadline. We have a goal to fulfil the commitments the two leaders made during their historic summit meeting in Singapore,\u201d Stephen Biegun said on Monday, referring to Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/12\/solidarity-of-heirs-on-the-trump-and-kim-surreality-show\">first summit<\/a> in June last year, when they signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2018\/jun\/12\/trump-and-kim-document-analysis-singapore-agreement-denuclearisation\">vague statement<\/a> on denuclearisation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/16\/us-north-korea-envoy-dismisses-year-end-deadline-for-talks-breakthrough\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Biegun says on visit to Seoul that recent statements by Pyongyang were \u2018so hostile and negative\u2019The US special envoy for North Korea has dismissed a year-end deadline set by Pyongyang to make concessions in stalled nuclear talks, but said Washi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,441,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12189,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188\/revisions\/12189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}