{"id":139372,"date":"2017-12-15T01:56:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=139372"},"modified":"2017-12-15T01:56:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T06:56:13","slug":"us-special-envoy-backs-unconditional-talks-with-n-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/15\/us-special-envoy-backs-unconditional-talks-with-n-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"US special envoy backs unconditional talks with N. Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_127063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127063\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ambyun_official.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127063\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ambyun_official.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Joseph Y. Yun, United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy (Photo By Unidentified photographer for US State Department - US Embassy in Malaysia, Public Domain)\" width=\"234\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Joseph Y. Yun, United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=58151263\">Photo By Unidentified photographer for US State Department &#8211; US Embassy in Malaysia, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BANGKOK &#8212; The U.S. special envoy for North Korea has expressed hope that Pyongyang would accept Secretary of State Rex Tillerson&#8217;s diplomatic offer of unconditional talks, although the overture has already been contradicted by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Yun told reporters in Bangkok on Friday that the talks could take place without preconditions and would serve Washington&#8217;s dual approach of pressure and engagement on Pyongyang over its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>Yun says it&#8217;s unclear whether North Korea is willing to talk following a period of accelerated nuclear activity, saying \u201cit&#8217;s very hard to discern what their intent is without having real dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House has contradicted Tillerson&#8217;s offer of talks without preconditions, saying North Korea must first take \u201csincere and meaningful actions toward denuclearization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK &#8212; The U.S. special envoy for North Korea has expressed hope that Pyongyang would accept Secretary of State Rex &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":127063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[5360,29911,1509,1654,13441,9746],"class_list":["post-139372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-bangkok","tag-joseph-yun","tag-north-korea","tag-pyongyang","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-white-house","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}