Draft:Peace treaty with North Korea

South Korea's foreign minister has said that North Korea's leader has "given his word" that he is committed to denuclearization, a prime condition for a potential summit with President Donald Trump in May.

President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May, setting in motion the most significant development in years of intermittent negotiations about North Korea's nuclear weapons program, reports CNBC. 

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said yesteday sanctions on North Korea will not be eased for the sake of a summit with Pyongyang, but China’s state media warned nuclear North Korea will not be intimidated and that talks were the only solution.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged the United States to “lower the threshold for talks” with North Korea on Feb. 26 as his aides held rare talks with a Pyongyang general on ways to defuse tensions.

Twenty nations agreed on Jan. 16 to consider tougher sanctions to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Pyongyang it could trigger a military response if it did not choose negotiations.

Twenty nations agreed on Tuesday to consider tougher sanctions to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Pyongyang it could trigger a military response if it did not chose negotiations, Reuters reported. 

The administration of then US President Bill Clinton believed that the US military and South Korea's forces would win a conflict on the Korean Peninsula, but also understood the number of casualties would be enormous.

The United States warned North Korea's leadership it would be "utterly destroyed" if war were to break out after Pyongyang test fired its most advanced missile, putting the U.S. mainland within range, in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, Reuters.

South Korea and Japan on Tuesday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's move to put North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, saying it will ramp up pressure on the reclusive regime to get rid of its nuclear weapons, Reuters writes.

The situation around North Korea's nuclear and missile programs requires urgent action, US President Donald Trump said after his Asian tour.