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US-N KOREA SUMMIT IN SINGAPORE

A bumpy road ahead

Warns Mattis, rules out sanctions relief for Pyongyang without steps to denuclearisation

REUTERS, Singapore
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said yesterday North Korea will receive relief only after it takes clear and irreversible steps to end its nuclear programme, adding it would be a bumpy road to a summit between US and North Korean leaders.
The comments sought to address concern the United States may be rushing to strike a breakthrough in the unprecedented summit between the two leaders after US President Donald Trump put the meeting back on track for June 12 in Singapore.
"We can anticipate, at best, a bumpy road to the (negotiations)," Mattis said at the start of a meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts on the sidelines of Shangri-la dialogue in Singapore.
"We will continue to implement all UN Security Council resolutions on
North Korea. North Korea will receive relief only when it demonstrates verifiable and irreversible steps to denuclearisation," Mattis added.
Trump said on Friday he would hold the meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in a
dramatic turn of course in the high stakes diplomacy aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
Eight days after cancelling the summit citing Pyongyang's "hostility", Trump announced the decision to go ahead with
the meeting after hosting Kim's envoy in the White House, saying he expected "very positive result" with North Korea.
North Korea's nuclear weapons programme has been a source of major security tensions that persisted despite a series of UN and US sanctions and it has also demonstrated advances in ballistic missile technology that experts believe now threatens the US mainland.
North Korea has conducted six nuclear tests starting in 2006 but has declared it would no longer need such tests. In May, it invited foreign journalists to witness what it said was the demolition of its nuclear test site.
The Trump administration wants the North to "denuclearize", meaning to get rid of its nuclear arsenal, in return for relief from economic sanctions.
But North Korea's leadership is believed to regard nuclear weapons as crucial to its survival and has rejected unilaterally disarming.