Biden looks to build on Trump’s Singapore deal with North Korea

Bloomberg

President Joe Biden is looking to build on a denuclearisation agreement Donald Trump reached with North Korea, a move likely to be welcomed by South Korea, which has seen it as a starting point for disarmament discussions.
Kurt Campbell, Biden’s Asia coordinator, made the administration’s first on-record comments that it would accede to the agreement struck in 2018 between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at their summit in Singapore, Yonhap News reported.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who meets Biden at the White House, has been looking for a US commitment to the pact.
“Our policy review took a careful look at everything that has been tried before.
Our efforts will build
on Singapore and other agreements made by
previous administrations,” Campbell said in a written interview. The Singapore summit resulted in a bare-bones declaration that included a call for the two sides “to work towards complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.”
But the US and North Korea never agreed on what they meant by denuclearisation and the accord resulted in no tangible steps for Kim to wind down his arsenal.