Speaking of PVID, what makes PVID so different from CVID, or 'Complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization'?<br />Why has the goal of PVID pressed the regime much more than the past?<br /><br /> PVID refers to permanent, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.<br />U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used that term for the first time at his inauguration speech.<br /> Now, using the word 'permanent' means that Washington wants to get rid of the possibility that North Korea could resume its nuclear development in the future.<br />It presses Pyongyang to have thousands of its experts leave the regime... and abandon all of its WMDs -- that's not only its nuclear weapons but also its ICBMs, and biological and chemical weapons.<br /> So that raises the bar on the denuclearization negotiations with the North, which ended up rather deepening the rift between Pyongyang and Washington.<br />Some experts view that North Korea and the U.S. decided to focus on nuclear weapons and related facilities for now and not expand the agenda further.<br /> Secretary Pompeo returned to the goal of CVID recently,... stressing it on his way to Pyongyang last week... and this weekend after meeting his South Korean counterpart.<br />
