Saying they believe the US and North Korea have “some kind of difference in stances” ahead of the June 12 summit, South Korea has issued a statement offering to serve as mediator for the talks, and various other channels.
South Korea’s Blue House has issued a statement saying they’ve discerned “North Korea’s position and attitude,” and are interested in talking to the Trump Administration as a way of preparing for the summit.
North Korea doesn’t seem to be on board with that idea, however. Their chief negotiator, Ri Son Gwon, issued a statement Thursday criticizing South Korea as “ignorant and incompetent.” He said there would be no new talks with South Korea until there are some understandings reached.
North Korea had made substantial diplomatic progress with both the US and South Korea in recent months. A recent US-South Korea war game, however, has raised some questions in the minds of the North Korean leadership. Since the backlash is heavier against South Korea than the US, it’s unlikely that the North is going to welcome the South as a mediator by June 12 without a major last minute rapprochement.
I propose Satan or any bad Spirit sits between Trump and Kim Jong-un, but not ever a S. Korean.
I’ll have to digress on this, Bob, S. Korea has to mediate the US-DPRK summit. Why? S. Korea has every right to mediate the US-DPRK summit, since it’s own status will be affected.
It’s the US bases that must be closed and all troops and equipment returned home, once this summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un has ended.
I do not expect that Trump and Kin Jong-un will even meet this June.
US ruling classes likes to have some enemies around; so, N.Korea will be treated as such as long as it rejects any oligarchic structures.
You might be surprised I predict Rocket man Kim is going to popular in So Korea too .
In the US press too, compared to Trump. Notice the use of dotard with glee. Quoting Kim is popular.
It’s always good to have an adult like Moon Jae-in in the room.
How about we let SoKo and NoKo work out their differences between themselves, and we work with whatever they decide? If we impose our own brand of ‘peace’, you can bet cash money that it’s not going to work and we’ll be looking at blowback within a few years.
The USA really has nothing to do with the Korean situation – aside from a state of war due to a UN resolution dating back to 1950. Once the Koreas come to terms, they should jointly approach the UN with a view to rescinding the ‘police action’ resolution.
If the USA wants to negotiate a nuclear disarmament agreement with North Korea, that’s worth pursuing, for both states … and others in the region.
We never can tell what Kim and Donald might do . Trump is different from all our leaders since the fifties . He has big war party on both sides of the political show Bolton can talk tough and make them all happy . Trump has agreed to canceling the military war games practices that always made N korea unhappy .. Things just might turn out for peace anyway some how . Trump managed to end the conflict in Syria with a lot of Russian help .in his 1st year , not bad considering we had been aiding the wrong side for several years .
The United States just calls their military spending national defense . It is not national defense It is globalism NWO costs for policing the world that does not follow the new world orders . Our military spending is policing costs for police actions the globalist require for their orders . This is the first president we have elected for a long time that seems to understand the American people are not all sold on globalism , The United Nations , the NWO and eventually a one world government .