North Korea has expressed regret Thursday after the surprise President Trump announcement he is canceling the June 12 summit. They say the announcement was unexpected, but that they don’t expect to change their own hopes for having talks.
Rather, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan says that North Korea will do everything to ensure a peace deal, and are willing to give the US “time and opportunity” to change their minds on the talks.
Kim added that North Korea remains willing to meet face-to-face with US officials “at any time in any form to resolve the problem.” President Trump didn’t rule out talks in the future, but also didn’t make it particularly clear what he wanted North Korea to do to get talks in the future.
Trump claimed it was North Korea’s ‘hostility’ that forced his cancellation. No one else seemed to expect this, and South Korea’s President Moon said he was “very perplexed” by Trump’s announcement. Moon said the peace process shouldn’t be “abandoned nor delayed.”
While Trump attempted to blame North Korea for the summit cancellation, North Korea is making it very clear that they still want the talks. This is also putting some pressure on Trump to make some effort to salvage the talks after withdrawing.
Trump’s Foreign Policy skills seem limited at best, too much ego and not enough thought perhaps.
For me he acts in the way that a keen businessman looks out for sudden opportunities to make a lot of money. When the window to such an opportunity opens the businessman must act fast and often take a big risk.
The thaw between N. and S. Korea which began earlier this year seemed to offer that opening. Unfortunately for president Trump, international diplomacy is very different from running a housing and hotel development firm in New York City.
Now the winning of a peace treaty on the Korean peninsula by Trump has become akin to the way flowers are auctioned in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. You get only one chance and must then bid immediately. That may be the case for Kim too.
No one should be surprised at this turn of events.
Basically Kimbo just outstaged Tr.ump with diplomacy. Art of the deal only works on old ladies property stolen to build a parking lot for your casino not negotiate peace deals with a forign government.
“meet to resolve the problem”? Wish N. Koreans would tell us what it is they want US to do for them?
How much did it cost us to let Germany to be reunited .Nothing , but it sure cost Yugoslavia a lot .
By far the best preparation for negotiations is if we and the North Koreans exchange and adjust when needed “wants” via an intermediary rather than at this summit meeting of the presidents . The best intermediary for us today is South Korea. Far better than China or Russia. Japan is out of the question. The Koreans would balk.
Our constitution allows the president to negotiate without asking permission from or even consulting with congress. The president does not have to tell the nation anything until an agreement is signed on the dotted lines. The North Koreans owe our nation nothing. Why reveal your strategy before kickoff?
You can’t make a deal with a mobster like Trump, nor with the evil Neocons he has surrounded himself with. Kim is much better off negotiating directly with Moon, with the backing of China and Russia as his “insurance policy” in case Trump flips back to “fire and fury” again, which he most certainly will.
It took a long time to convince me Russia was negotiating on a higher moral plan than the USA. . But I would never have believed N Korea would also beat the United States too . But that is actuatly what Kim has done to our president Trump on the important Korea peace plan .. I’am a Trump fan but today Kim looks good and Trump not so good .
To me Trump looks petulant.
Pulling out of the summit the day after North Korea destroyed its testing facility is Trump’s idea of winning. For those of us who witnessed his career in New York this kind of infantile spiteful behavior is not unexpected. Trump has always been a short-sighted belligerent infantile narcissist, sometimes delusional, and always seeking immediate gratification. In his simple mind Trump “won” because North Korea demolished its testing facility and the US gave nothing in return. Trump thinks he faked Kim out. He counts that as winning. Unfortunately, Trump doesn’t understand blowback.North Korea, China and South Korea and the entire world are learning that Trump can’t be trusted. This will make future negotiations very difficult for the United States. Trump may have had some native intelligence as a young man. But he became intellectually lazy and simple by surrounding himself with sycophants who have been telling him that his delusions are reality for decades. But this is what winning means under Trump.
Say what you want too But our president Trump is the only president for the last 70 years that would even consider serriously talking to N Korea about a peace plan . So i’am still pinning my hopes on Trump .
That may be Eric, but it’s the Ch.inese that forced Kimbo to the table. By restoring peace between north and south, they have essentially isolated Uncle Sham from playing the role of the middle finger.
Unlike Trump, Kim is smarter than he looks.