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A US military aircraft containing the remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War landed in South Korea. It was a promise of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
![Officials carrying boxes containing remains of US soldiers killed during the Korean War at the Osan base in South Korea. [19659003] North Korea has launched the complex process of restoring the remains of US servicemen killed in the Korean War more than 65 years ago, as it pledged in June at a historic summit with states </h2>
<p> North Korean leader Kim Jong-un <em> "today fulfills part of the commitment he made" </em> to US President Donald Trump <em> "to restore our fallen American soldiers "</em> announced Thursday evening the White House. <em> "We are encouraged by the actions of North Korea and this sequence favorable to a positive change" </em> she added. </p>
<p> A US Air Force aircraft <em> "containing the remains of fallen soldiers left Wonsan in North Korea "</em> to transfer them to Osan Air Base, South Korea, according to the US presidency, which did not specify how many human remains are concerned. He arrived there on Friday, in Korean local time. A formal repatriation ceremony will be held on August 1. </p>
<p> This announcement coincides with a symbolic date: June 27 marks the anniversary of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 conflict, even though no treaty of formal peace has never been concluded. This is the last of the four commitments of the Singapore declaration signed on June 12 by Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un: </p>
<p> <em> "The United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea pledge to recover the remains of the prisoners of war and soldiers reported missing in action "</em> and <em>" to repatriate immediately those who have already been identified "</em> they claimed. </p>
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A beginning of promise kept
From In the days following the summit, restitution of the first remains was presented as imminent on the American side. But the talks turned out to be more complex than expected, and it took a visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Pyongyang in early July, then working meetings between delegations from the two countries on the border between Pyongyang and Pyongyang. the two Koreas
The realization of this promise is for the moment only very relative: according to Washington, it is a "significant first step to resume repatriation" but also "field operations in North Korea to find some 5,300 Americans who have never returned home" .
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A first agreement between Washington and Pyongyang allowed the repatriation of 229 batches of remains between 1990 and 2005. But this process was the cost of the deterioration of relations.
Its recovery, even if it is from a secondary point, is a breath of fresh air for the Trump administration, which is struggling to prove that the Singapore summit and the spectacular rapprochement between the United States and North Korea are bearing fruit.
After welcoming the start of the dismantling by the closed regime of the infrastructure of its main satellite launching base, the American president saw in this new stage a new encouraging sign.
The denuclearization still in suspense
But in the In fact, the negotiations skate on the crucial issue of relations between the two long-time enemy countries: the North Korean denuclearization. Apart from the beginning of the dismantling of a site, which remains to be verified, no concrete progress has been announced since June 12 and, despite the continuation of the negotiations, the terms and the timetable for the dismantling "complete" ] and "verified" of the Pyongyang nuclear program remain unknown.
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The very definition of denuclearization as envisioned by Kim Jong Un remains unclear, and his regime has never provided a comprehensive statement of its facilities and arsenal. Faced with these procrastination, Washington, while displaying its optimism, blows hot and cold.
After claiming a denuclearization "without delay" which starts "very quickly" for "the bulk of disarmament" to be completed by the end of 2020 at the end of Donald Trump's first term, the US administration recently badured that nothing is urgent and that he " There is no end date ".
But signs of impatience break out, especially since, at the same time, international pressure is beginning to ease, with China and Russia in particular being accused of more to implement as firmly as before the sanctions of the UN.
"We are engaged in a patient diplomacy, but we will not let it drag on without result" thus warned Wednesday Mike Pompeo, grateful before the US Congress that North Korea continues to produce fissile material.
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