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\u00a0Saddled with the toughest job in American diplomacy, the chief U.S. negotiator with North Korea stands between a U.S. president who insists he doesn\u2019t want to talk and an enemy who shows no interest in listening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While veteran State Department Asia hand Joseph Yun might be Washington\u2019s best diplomatic hope for reducing the risk of a devastating war on the Korean peninsula, he serves an administration riven by divisions over how to handle Pyongyang.<\/p>\n

On the other side, North Korea\u2019s young leader, Kim Jong Un, shows little interest in negotiating either, at least not until he has developed a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.<\/p>\n

Despite the daunting obstacles, South Korean-born Yun has told colleagues and others he hopes his diplomatic efforts can lower the temperature in a dangerous nuclear stand-off, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen current and former U.S. officials and South Korean diplomats.<\/p>\n

Most were deeply skeptical about his chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s such a dreamer,\u201d a White House official said, with a note of sarcasm.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t think this is going anywhere,\u201d said another U.S. official, although he suggested it was still worthwhile to keep engaging at some level with the North Koreans as long as Yun does not appear to be undermining President Donald Trump\u2019s public rejection of direct negotiations.<\/p>\n

Trump has told aides that his military threats will drive North Korea to capitulate and rein in its nuclear and missile programs, four White House officials said, a view not shared among most U.S. intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n

Yun, however, is quietly pursuing direct diplomacy with North Korean officials at the United Nations and has a mandate to discuss issues beyond the release of U.S. citizens, a senior State Department official told Reuters this week. In June, he secured the release of U.S. student Otto Warmbier, who returned to the United States in a coma and died days later.<\/p>\n

\u2018RUNNING OUT OF TIME\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump headed to Asia on Friday as a senior aide warned the world is \u201crunning out of time\u201d on the North Korea crisis. Behind the scenes, Yun is trying to keep open a fragile line of communication that could be used to prevent any miscalculation by one side or the other from spiraling into military conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Further aggravating tensions, two U.S. strategic bombers conducted drills over South Korea on Thursday. That followed word from South Korea\u2019s spy agency that North Korea may be preparing another missile launch.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials have said privately that intercepting a test missile is among options under consideration, though there is disagreement within the administration about the risks.<\/p>\n

In the midst of this is Yun, a soft-spoken, 32-year foreign service veteran who took on the job a year ago, near the end of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

He is grappling with Trump\u2019s strident rhetoric as well as disagreement among the president\u2019s top aides over whether saber-rattling will force Kim to capitulate and what the threshold for any military actions should be,\u00a0according to several U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Concern about Yun\u2019s difficulties has surfaced in Seoul, where he visits regularly and where Trump will travel next week on the second stop of his Asian tour.<\/p>\n

Several South Korean officials expressed worry that Yun\u2019s diplomatic efforts with North Korea lack any real underpinning of support from the White House.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThings are clearly not easy for him,\u201d one South Korean diplomat said. \u201cYun is precisely that person (to talk to North Korea), but Trump is killing the whole process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters on Sept. 30 the United States was probing for a diplomatic opening, only to be slapped down by Trump, who told him via Twitter this was a waste of time.<\/p>\n

At the same time, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who regularly briefs Trump on intelligence matters and is considered one of the most hawkish voices on North Korea in the president\u2019s inner circle, has apparently gained stature.<\/p>\n

Several officials familiar with those discussions say Pompeo is feeding Trump assessments that U.S. military threats will force Kim to bow to U.S. demands for nuclear disarmament, a position that some U.S. intelligence officers privately contest.<\/p>\n

NORTH KOREAN NEGOTIATOR \u2018SHOCKED\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

A U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Yun has become diplomatically \u201cuntethered,\u201d not fully connected to a core U.S. approach that is emphasizing economic sanctions and the threat of military action rather than diplomacy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The one tangible achievement of Yun\u2019s diplomatic efforts in the past year was winning the release of 22-year-old Warmbier in secret talks with North Korean officials in Oslo and New York. Yun flew to Pyongyang in June to medically evacuate Warmbier.<\/p>\n

When Choe Son Hui, head of the North Korean foreign ministry\u2019s North America bureau, met Yun in Oslo, she was unaware of how serious Warmbier\u2019s condition was, a source in Washington knowledgeable about the matter said.<\/p>\n

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Second Plenum of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

But once she learned about it she was \u201cshocked\u201d and Yun was summoned urgently to meet a North Korean diplomat in New York, which quickly led to Warmbier\u2019s return home, the source said.<\/p>\n

Warmbier\u2019s death complicated Yun\u2019s efforts as it contributed to a chilling of U.S.-North Korean contacts around that time, the State Department official said.<\/p>\n

STUMBLING IN THE DARK<\/h3>\n

Despite Trump\u2019s threats of military action against Pyongyang, the State Department official said Yun\u2019s view was \u201cthe less you engage diplomatically, the more likely you are in the dark.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even so, Trump\u2019s rhetoric has raised questions among allies, and possibly even in North Korea, about how serious, if at all, his administration is about diplomacy and how much of a mandate Yun may have to pursue it.<\/p>\n

Trump \u201cpersonalized\u201d the conflict \u2013 deriding Kim as \u201cLittle Rocket Man\u201d – \u00a0against the advice of his national security and intelligence experts, some of whom warned it could be counterproductive, a senior national security official said.<\/p>\n

Another official pointed out, however, that Trump, who in May said he would be honored to meet Kim, had not hurled any fresh insults at Kim in recent days, raising hopes for an altered approach.<\/p>\n

A South Korean official in Seoul said it was necessary for Washington to have someone in contact with North Korea to help spur future negotiations if they are ever to take hold.<\/p>\n

But Trump\u2019s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, told Japan\u2019s NHK television this week: \u201cWhat we cannot afford to do is enter into these long, drawn-out negotiations that allow North Korea to use these negotiations as cover for continuing their nuclear and missile programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former U.S. negotiators sympathize with Yun, whose authority to negotiate has been undercut by the tug-of-war between a White House breathing fire and a State Department pushing a peaceful solution.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cNobody doubted my authority,\u201d said Wendy Sherman, one of the lead U.S. negotiators who achieved the 2015 deal under which<\/p>\n

Iran agreed to restrain its nuclear program in return for relief from economic sanctions. \u201cAll of this undermines our ability to do the job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Gallucci, who was chief U.S. negotiator during the North Korean nuclear crisis of 1994 and has had recent contact with Yun, said the envoy is \u201crealistic about the challenges of negotiating in the current atmosphere, including the tone set by the president, but he believes in the mission even as his approach is guided by realism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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