Analysis: Denuclearisation of what? U.S. switch on North Korea wording raises debate


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  • Thursday, 18 Mar 2021

FILE PHOTO: A child plays with old weapons displayed for visitors at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul August 11, 2011. The rival Koreas traded blame on Thursday for a brief military exchange at a tense maritime border as the United States urged Pyongyang to get back to the main business of denuclearisation talks. REUTERS/Truth Leem

SEOUL (Reuters) - Officials with U.S. President Joe Biden's administration have begun emphasising the "denuclearisation of North Korea", rather than the whole peninsula, in a subtle but noticeable shift from wording embraced in previous talks with Pyongyang.

In speeches, policy documents, and other communications, senior leaders including Secretary of State Antony Blinken have regularly adopted the phrase in a break from the "denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula".

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