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D get re going to go an started and thanks for joining us despite the rain. Its difficult for many of you. My name frank, welcome to usip. For those of you not familiar ip theyre dedicated preventing mitigating or resolving conflict. Global hot spots that has dell youded peace for many years at the korean peninsula. President trump and chairman kim north the border between korea and south korea which rekindled prospects of who incoming progress try to make on peace. Sticking point has been north korea asking for sanctions relief in order for the kim regime to survive and thrive it conomy andevelop the e sanctions impeded these goals. Ion stated dministrat provide ll not sanctions relief ml north korea akes steps towards denuclearization. How do we offer sanctions relieve to incentivize diplomacy . The same time, not minimize uickly. Erage too q so weve assembled this town of speakers. One is running late so well have him join when he arrives ut ive asked them as a group to help explain
Its about an hour 50 minutes. All right. So woere going to go ahead and get started. Thanks for joining us despite the rain. I know its difficult for many of you. For those of you who are not familiar with usip, were a nonpartisan independent institute that is dedicated to proposition that peace is possible. Were funded by congress and focused on preventing, mitigating, or resolving conflict. One of the global hotspots that has eluded peace for many years is the korean peninsula, and as you know, recently, President Trump and chairman kim met at the border between north and south korea, which has rekindled the prospects for returning back to negotiations and breaking the current diplomatic stalemate. And, in fact, the two leaders agreed to resume workinglevel negotiations in the coming weeks and try to make progress on denuclearization and peace. One of the sticking points has been north korea asking for sanctions relief. In order for the kim regime to survive and thrive, it needs to g
Get started. Thank you for joining us despite the rain. I know it was difficult for many of you. Welcome to u. S. Ip usip. Are not familiar, we are a nonpartisan, independent institute dedicated to the proposition that peace is possible. We are funded by congress and we are focused on preventing, mitigating and resolving conflict. Thatf the global hotspots has eluded peace for many years is the korean peninsula. Canident trump and chairman met at the border with south korea, which has weakened the prospect of returning to measure returning to negotiations. In the coming weeks, they will try to make progress on denuclearization and peace. One of the sticking points has been north korea asking for sanctions relief. In order for the kim regime to survive and thrive, it needs to generate hard currency, and develop its economy, and sanctions have impeded these goals. The Trump Administration has stated consistently that it will not provide sanctions relief until north korea denuclearize den
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