North Korea’s threat to deliver a “Christmas gift” to the US appears to be overestimated as no reports of military action by Pyongyang were registered as of late Wednesday.
Earlier this month, a North Korean official accused US negotiators of trying to buy time without offering solutions as the two countries struggle to reach an agreement on denuclearization. The official added that such inaction meant that the US was essentially choosing to receive an unspecified “gift” from North Korea by Christmas.
However, no such “gift”, which presumed to be some sort of military action or test, has been reported since then. The Pentagon declined to comment on Wednesday, but an Air Force general last week suggested the so-called gift could arrive sometime after Christmas as well.
The US appeared to take North Korea’s Christmas warning seriously, flying four surveillance planes over the Korean Peninsula Wednesday.
US President Trump, however, remained optimistic, joking on Tuesday that the gift could be “a beautiful vase as opposed to a missile test.”
“We’ll find out what the surprise is and we’ll deal with it very successfully,” he told reporters in Palm Beach at his Mar-a-Lago resort where he is spending the holidays.
US talks with North Korea have stalled since Trump walked away from a February summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after they hit an impasse on proposed US sanctions relief and how much of its weapons program Pyongyang was willing to shutter. Trump later met with Kim at the Korean Peninsula’s Demilitarized Zone in June and agreed to resume working-level talks, however, they quickly broke down in October. North Korea has set a year-end deadline for the US to change its nuclear policy, and analysts have predicted a return to intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and nuclear tests if no progress is made between the two countries.
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