North Korea’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement Friday saying that nuclear talks with the US may never resume, unless the Trump Administration is willing to take a “new approach” in their pursuit.
“The underlying cause of setback of the DPRK-US summit talks in Hanoi is
the arbitrary and dishonest position taken by the United States,
insisting on a method which is totally impossible get through,” the
statement insisted.
North Korea wants a new approach, and officials have in particular said
they want Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and John Bolton taken out of
the equation. North Korean officials say they believe they can work with
Trump directly, but that other officials tend to derail this.
Indications are that the US isn’t intending to change their policy
toward North Korea, and that the status quo of demanding North Korea
give in to their demands unconditionally and without getting anything in
return seems to be locked in as the go-to plan for the Trump
Administration.
Trumpsters still labor under the misperception that Trump somehow was forced to bring Pompeo and Bolton into his inner circle and that he’s really the “peace president” they voted for, just hampered by his crazy neocon staff. Apparently, even Kim believes that. Fact is, Trump could fire those two today. Who’s stopping him from doing that?
The Art of the Deal was really The Art of the Bamboozle. Trump is the consummate con man who has convinced his loyal following that he really has their best interests at heart. Hate to break it to you, Trumpsters, you’ve been had. He’s been mobbed up for decades, ever since Roy Cohn took him under his wing and taught him how to launder foreign drug money through his real estate dealings. That’s who he’s truly beholden to, not you.
For some reason Robert Mueller chose to ignore that when he was looking into foreign collusion. But, then again, Mueller’s been a cover-up artist for decades as well. Maybe the Southern District of New York will go after him when he’s finally out of office… or, not.
The trump financial investigation is playing out now in congress.
The détente between the US and North Korea is a bit puzzling, only months before the first summit the language was bellicose and of war. Is it just a play for time by one or both sides? It has similarities to the 1930s, Munich and the German-USSR nonaggression pact. It is certainly following the pattern of history.
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