President Trump Says Denuclearization Talks Will Restart After Joint Exercise

GIKorea | August 11, 2019 | North Korea | 2 Comments

Like I have always said, the Kim regime was just using the joint US-ROK exercise as an excuse to test their new short range ballistic missile:

A “new-type tactical guided missile” is launched on Aug. 6, 2019, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Aug. 7. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who watched the launch, said this week’s missile tests were an “adequate warning” against the joint military exercise between South Korea and the United States that kicked off earlier in the week, the KCNA said.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed his will to restart negotiations on its nuclear program with the United States “as soon as” the joint military exercise between Seoul and Washington is over.
The North Korean leader also pledged to stop missile launches when the combined exercise ends, according to the president.
“In a letter to me sent by Kim Jong Un, he stated, very nicely, that he would like to meet and start negotiations as soon as the joint U.S./South Korea joint exercise are over,” Trump said on Twitter.
On Friday, the president told reporters that he had received another “very beautiful” letter from Kim the previous day, in which the leader expressed his displeasure with the allied exercises.
Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but it appears that talks will restart and probably center on what a “freeze deal” will look like because the Trump administration seems to have realized that Kim Jong-un will not denuclearize.