There's an interesting stand-off taking place between North Korea and the U.S.After meeting face to face for the first time last summer,the two countries leaders signed an agreement to establish new relations and work towards peace.But since then, it's as if the two sides are saying to each other OK, you go first. What do they want?For North Korea, the answer is security guarantees, promises from the U.S. that it will not attack the communist country.It also wants the U.S. to lift the sanctions, the penalties it placed on North Korea because of it's nuclear and missile programs.While North Korea has said its nuclear program is a right,the United States and the United Nations consider it illegal.And that's what the U.S. wants, for North Korea to completely give up it's nuclear programand never try to develop nuclear weapons.When U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un held their historic meeting on June 12th,they both agreed to give each other what they wanted.So the first step was taken. But it's the next one that's been the hangup.President Trump is obviously very optimistic about the diplomatic process with North Korea.He even said that there's a lot of progress being made behind the scenes that hasn't been reported in the media.But is that progress the arrangement of the second summit?Or is the progress actual compromise on this issue of the timeline of denuclearization and the lifting of sanctions?Because that has been the key sticking point ever since the summit in Singapore on June 12th.They signed a very vaguely worded agreement that didn't have any specifics.Kim Jong-Un walked away perhaps thinking that the U.S. was ready to lift sanctions and provide economic relief right away.
