Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un (pictured during his New Year's Day speech) have repeatedly traded threats of war and personal insults during months of high tensions over Pyongyang's weapons ambitions
Daily Mail/AFP: Kim Jong-un is setting a TRAP for the US and South Korea and has agreed to talks with Seoul in a bid to end their 70-year alliance with America, analysts warn
* North and South Korea will hold official talks on January 9, Seoul said on Friday
* It comes after Pyongyang sent a statement accepting Seoul's offer for the talks
* Kim said he could send athletes to the Winter Olympics in the South next month
* But analysts warn Pyongyang's ultimate goal is to divide US-South Korea alliance
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un could be laying a trap for the US and the South with his apparent olive branches towards Seoul, analysts say, warning that Pyongyang's ultimate goal is to divide their 70-year alliance.
North and South Korea agreed on Friday to hold their first talks in more than two years, hours after Seoul and Washington decided to defer joint military exercises which always infuriate Pyongyang until after the Winter Olympics.
The meeting, the first since December 2015, will take place on January 9 in Panmunjom, the truce village in the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula.
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WNU Editor: South Korean President Moon Jae-in's number one foreign policy objective since his election last year has been to develop a rapprochement with North Korea .... and to accomplish this objective he has made it very clear on numerous occasions that he is willing to make major concessions. For this policy he also has garnered a large number of supporters .... members within his own political party in South Korea, the Chinese, the Russians, and among many in the West who view this as a preferable alternative than President Trump's or Japanese PM Abe's approach towards North Korea. What's my point of view .... South Korean President Moon Jae-in is going to fail. I can understand why China and Russia are favoring this approach .... they are not under threat, and they are practicing realpolitik when it comes to what they want in Asia. Where I am disappointed is in the altitude and behavior of many in the West. I always find it astounding that many in the West have this faith that dealing with what is in essence a murderous Stalinist regime in Pyongyang would be enough to restrain its behavior. Nothing can be further from the truth. The North Korean government has never wavered in what is their number one policy .... and that is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula under Pyongyang's conditions. In the pursuit of this policy, the North Korean regime has brought unimaginable harm to the North Korean people, and raised tensions throughout the region. They will see this South Korean attempt for talks as a capitulation on their part, and they will exploit as much as they can.
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