North Korea’s UN Mission issued a statement on Wednesday criticizing the
Trump Administration, saying that while continuing to publicly court
dialogue with North Korea, they continue to take hostile actions against them.
This comes after President Trump’s weekend visit with Kim Jong Un, along
the demilitarized zone. Just a day before that visit, the US was
involved in a joint letter calling for all UN member states to expel all
North Korean workers.
The US call for this expulsion came with a US allegation
that North Korea had violated a cap on petroleum imports. The State
Department ordered this the same day that the US proposed Trump’s visit
to meet with Kim.
This confusion about US intentions has been a recurring problem for
North Korea, as while on the one hand Trump has repeatedly talked up
diplomacy and predicted very positive results, US actions have told a
very different story, and an expectation of a worsening situation.
It is this same divide which has informed the diplomatic problems so
far, as North Korea has seen its agreements met with more and more US
sanctions, and wonders if the US ever intends to deliver anything else
as part of an agreement.
Trump again shows his stupidity.
I didn’t know there were North Korean workers in other countries to be thrown out. I thought North Koreans weren’t allowed to leave the country?
No inconsistency here… US presidents expect to be able to continue taking hostile actions against those whom they are supposedly engaging in peaceful diplomacy with. In fact those hostile actions are seen as central to their strategy of forcing others to accept our “diplomacy” on our terms. It’s like asking someone to your house, punching them in the face, and telling them that if they would kindly help you move you will refrain from punching them in the face 3 more times.
Really? When is the last time a sitting President had repeated personal interactions with a foreign leader that he characterized as great and progressive, while the gov’t simultaneously sanctioned and vilified that leader’s nation?
You’re narrowing the focus… the Pres instead of aids doing it is remarkable, as is the particular dynamic here with N Korea. But arbitrarily labeling numerous nations as “evil” or “state sponsors of terrorism”, and seeing diplomacy as something we violently force foreigners into engaging in on our preconditions is all rather typical.
Tulsi once again shows her wisdom and good judgment. Tulsi will support Trump whenever he does something meaningful to advance peace. Like lifting sanctions or withdrawing troops from South Korea or Okinawa or negotiating a treaty. But handshakes are not a substitute for diplomacy. Ask the Palestinians. Yasser Arafat got lots of handshakes but no land. Trump gave Kim a gesture, but no security. North Korea was not fooled. Neither was Tulsi.
The trump selfie, phone in the front, knife in the back.
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The US is simply not trustworthy and as the Russians have pointed out, not agreement capable and the world knows it.
I see this as a win-win for Trump. He gets to snowjob his true believers that he’s a rational man of peace, while he lets the neocons take the lead on the actual, um, “negotiations.”
This confusion about US intentions has been a recurring problem for North Korea, as while on the one hand Trump has repeatedly talked up diplomacy and predicted very positive results, US actions have told a very different story, and an expectation of a worsening situation.
There is nothing “confusing” about American behavior.
It’s called talking out of both sides of your mouth, something America specializes in.
The Russians call the USA “not agreement capable”–which is nothing more than a Politically Correct way of saying “lying backstabbers.”