With South Korea trying to salvage international diplomacy with North
Korea after a failed Hanoi summit, North Korea contacted them Friday and
informed them that their staff is being withdrawn from the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong, North Korea.
The liaison office only opened back in September, and was meant to allow
the two Koreans to communicate directly 24 hours a day and 365 days a
year. South Korean officials expressed “regret” over the closure, and
say their own staff will be withdrawn as soon as possible.
The big question here is why the withdrawal happened in the first place,
and what it means for future diplomacy. North Korea is clearly irked
about the way Hanoi went, but South Korea has largely taken their side,
and is trying to help them in diplomacy with the US.
Recent US-driven sanctions against North Korea may have made them feel
obliged to make a show of a response. This may also be a show of
temporarily scaling back their diplomatic efforts after a setback, or
may even be related to recent UN griping about the office itself using “unreported” petroleum shipments.
I’ll tell you why. Three ugly little words: John F**king Bolton.
Someone should flog that bastard with a cricket bat.
And then flog the man who hired him and keeps him on staff.
I’n not at all surprised N. Korea quit its liaison office with S. Korea. This came about as a result of the failure of the US to ease its sanctions on the North.
If anybody’s to blame for this failure, it has to be the sabotage of the summit by both Bonkers Bolton and Pompous Pompeo (Bonkers taking the lead). Bonkers strutted into the building where the summit was taking place and told a surprised POTUS Donald Trump to keep the sanctions on N. Korea .. and, as a result, an irritated Kim Jong-Un stood up and walked out. I was both surprised and irritated at Trump for failing to fire Bonkers right on the spot. What he did was usurp Trump’s authority on foreign policy. Any other POTUS wouldn’t put up with this insubordination on Bonkers’ part.
Actually, no other POTUS wouldn’t have put up with the insubordination of both Bonkers Bolton and Pompous Pompeo when Trump announced the withdrawal of all US forces from Syria back in the middle of December, 2018. Those two traitors/mass murderers made a stupid fool out of Trump, and he did nothing. He’s to blame for his own failings to bring his advisers in line. Bonkers is just that – an adviser, nothing more. He’s not allowed to run foreign policy; that’s for the President alone, according to the US Constitution.
… OK, that’s sort of bad news…
Kim may not have until the 2020 U.S. election to get results.
They left because there’s no heating. It’s cold. Koreans can’t heat their own buildings without their colonial master’s approval.