North Korean state media issued a report Sunday confirming that Kim Jong Un has received an “excellent” letter from President Trump. The report went on to say that Kim was planning to “seriously contemplate” the content.
President Trump has confirmed recently that he’d received a letter from
Kim. It is unusual for North Korea to confirm that Trump has responded
in writing, which suggests North Korea considers this letter very
significant.
It may well be, at a time when US-North Korea talks have been
effectively halted for months. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed hope in his own comments that Trump’s letter might pave way for new talks.
It is unclear what the content of President Trump’s letter was.
Generally speaking, direct talks between Trump and Kim have gone much
better than negotiations between anyone else in US-North Korea
interactions.
That is the reason South Korean officials, intensely interested in
getting the US track of talks back running, have been urging Trump and
Kim to agree to another summit, hoping to improve the situation after a
failed Hanoi summit put negotiations on a multi-month hold.
North Korean officials have also expressed interest in direct Trump-Kim
talks, while seeing the likes of Pompeo as holding up progress with
their own positions on the matter.
Donald, this is why we have a State Dept, to handle all the “beautiful” and “excellent” official communications between the USA and heads of other countries. Why don’t you work on “keeping America great” and leave the personal communiques to people whose job it is to have a vocabulary larger than your average eighth grader.
Would many at the State Dept. tolerate peace, though? It seems like most of DC wants perpetual war with the rest of the globe, as does the mass media.
The President is supposed to represent the US. This seems within his job description. If it were to get out that Trump wants peace, he’d be brutally attacked.
I think this is an example where he’s in the right.
Pompeo hopes no such thing.