In comments made through North Korea’s state media, Kim Jong Un says he is open to holding an additional summit with President Trump even after the Hanoi failure, but that it would only be worthwhile if the US comes in with the right attitude.
Kim conceded that the Hanoi Summit made him seriously reexamine the process of diplomatic engagement, and that it “gave us a sense of caution about whether the US is even really trying” diplomatically.
Kim noted that the US came into that summit with a “completely
unrealizable plan” and were not ready to sit and discuss the matter to
try to come up with something mutually agreeable. Past reports indicate
the US revised the definition of “denuclearization” to a demand that
North Korea unconditionally give the US all of its nuclear arms and
materials instead of just dismantling them, and balked at seriously
easing sanctions.
Kim says that there is now a risk that things will go back to the
tensions before diplomacy began in early 2018. He added that he is
willing to wait through the rest of the year to see if the US changes
its mind and comes to the table with a new approach.
North Korea’s Kim is wasting his time. Build as many nukes as you possibly can and tell Trump to take Bolton, Pompeo and his “fair level” sanctions and shove them up his ass.
Yup, it was exactly this attitude from Bush 2 “axis of evil” which sent NK on the nuke push, which wouldn’t end until they had a plausible strike capability.
It’s the same with Putin and the Russian leadership. I don’t know why they even think they can deal with the lunatic asylum in Washington.
Bolton, Pompeo and Pence will also sabotage that summit.
Enabled by Trump.
The buck stops there.
Exactly.
What about the USA giving up all its nukes, since it is the only country ever to have used them on people, and is the most violent and threatening nation on the planet. Make us all safer- get rid of the nukes, as most nations on the globe want.
We would think that being the inventor, first user, and main proliferators, the US might take the lead in disarmament and final outlawing……
More then any other nation the US uses economic sanctions to dominate and punish others. When you stop and think about it the US is the most vulnerable to economic problems, it is our Achilles heel. What happens to the empire when the downturn comes, can we run up another twenty trillion in debt and still be viable, I don’t think so.