US faces critical moment to negotiate with North Korea, experts warn
(The Guardian North Korea)

Analysts say the latest statement by Kim Jong-un, signally a pause on Guam strike, gives the US a brief window to end the tense standoffThe latest statement by Kim Jong-un signalling a pause in Pyongyang´s war of words with Washington has given the US a window of a few days to negotiate a way of defusing a dangerous standoff, experts said on Tuesday.Many longstanding observers of the North Korean regime expressed concern that the US could misinterpret the message that it sent on Monday when Kim said he would `watch a little more` how the US acted in the region before deciding whether to go ahead with a plan to launch missiles over Japan aimed at the seas around the US territory of Guam. Related: Trump must negotiate with Kim to avert nuclear catastrophe | Letters North Korea has carried out five nuclear tests since 2006, so it unquestionably has the capacity to create some form of nuclear bomb.This is the best chance that Donald Trump will ever have to limit North Korea´s missile programmesGuam, a 210 sq mile sovereign US territory in the western Pacific Ocean, is used by America as a strategic military base. Almost a third of its land is controlled by the US military and about 6,000 American troops are based there. Related: In 1939, I didn´t hear war coming. Now its thundering approach can´t be ignored | Harry Leslie Smith Continue reading...