Restoring North Korea to Terrorism Blacklist Dims Hopes for Talks<br />" Mr. Choi said. that We were a bit disappointed that President Trump met the Japanese families, but not us Korean families, during his Asia trip,<br />President Xi Jinping of China, who has been under pressure from Mr. Trump to do more to rein in its Communist neighbor, sent<br />a special envoy to Pyongyang over the weekend in what Mr. Trump called a "big move" to persuade the North to change course.<br />that It is following its own schedule in weapons development, regardless of whether it is re-designated as a terrorism-sponsoring country.<br />Despite a two-month hiatus in North Korea’s weapons tests, Mr. Trump has held to his policy of "maximum pressure," restoring<br />North Korea on Monday to Washington’s list of terrorism-sponsoring states, along with Iran, Sudan and Syria.<br />Ministry said that Despite the re-designation, there is no change in joint efforts by South Korea<br />and the United States to try to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table for a peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear problem,<br />21, 2017<br />SEOUL, South Korea — President Trump’s re-designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism may have dashed cautious hopes in the region<br />that talks and diplomacy would replace escalating tensions and bellicose threats, analysts said on Tuesday.
