Canada Goose Outlet “It’s safe to say that the plans for

North Korea drops demand for US troop withdrawal from South in boost for talks

North Korean leader Kim Jong un has reportedly dropped his demand that US troops leave the Korean Peninsula in return for giving up canada goose factory sale his nuclear weapons, potentially removing one of the cheap canada goose uk biggest obstacles to a peace deal.

The US has about 28,000 troops stationed in South Korea, which has long been a thorny issue with the North Koreans and used by Pyongyang as a justification for building its nuclear programme as a deterrent.

However, on Thursday, South Korean President Moon Jae in, who will meet with Mr Kim at a summit next Friday, said the reclusive leader was now willing to give up the troops’ removal as a precondition for denuclearisation.

“The North Koreans did not present any conditions that the United States could not accept, such as the withdrawal of American troops in South Korea,” Mr Moon told newspaper publishers in buy canada goose jacket Seoul, canada goose reported the New York Times.

“They only talk about an end to hostilities against their country and canada goose clearance sale about getting security guarantees,” he said. Canada Goose Outlet “It’s safe to say that the plans for dialogue between the North and the canada goose uk outlet United States could proceed because that has been made clear.”

Mr Kim’s latest concession, although not yet publicly acknowledged by North Korea, was revealed shortly after Mr Trump insisted he Canada Goose sale would be willing to leave his own meeting with Mr canada goose coats Kim Canada Goose Jackets if it fell short of his expectations.

The two leaders Canada Goose Online are set to have an unprecedented summit in late May or early canada goose coats on sale June, making Mr Trump the first sitting US President to do so.

“If we don’t think it’s going to be successful, we won’t have it,” he warned. “If the meeting when I’m there isn’t fruitful, I will leave the meeting.”

Bill Cheap Canada Goose Hagerty, the US ambassador to Japan, said Mr Trump would use the summit to demand canada goose uk black friday also the elimination of the North’s stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.

He said the issue came up in broader discussions on the North’s Canada Goose Coats On Sale weapons capabilities between Mr Trump and Shinzo Abe, thecanadagooseoutlet the Japanese prime minister, at the Mar a Lago canada goose store resort in Florida earlier this week.

“We had broad ranging discussions on the topic and it extended beyond denuclearisation to the topics of chemical and biological weapons as well”, Mr Hagerty said.

The North is believed to have large reserves of weaponised chemical and biological agents including hydrogen cyanide, phosgene, sarin, tabun, chlorine and a uk canada goose number of derivatives of mustard gas and a number cheap Canada Goose of defectors have claimed the regime has used its own citizens as buy canada goose jacket cheap guinea pigs canada goose clearance in weapons tests.

Based on their testimony, a report Canada Goose online by the US Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 2014 estimated that North Korea is able to manufacture 4,500 tonnes of chemical canada goose uk shop agents a year, but has the capacity to ramp that annual output up to 12,000 tonnes.

The report added that the regime has provided chemical canadian goose jacket and biological agents widely Canada Goose Parka regarded uk canada goose outlet as the weapons of mass destruction of less technologically advanced nations to Egypt, Iran, Libya and Syria since the 1990s.

In an earlier hint of North Korea’s shifting stance towards US forces, Mr Kim already signaled in March that he would not oppose joint US South Korean military exercises, which had been postponed because of the canada goose black friday sale Winter Olympics.