Speaking Sunday on upcoming nuclear talks with North Korea, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says the US doesn’t expect any major deals with North Korea and has not prepared for a “grand bargain” at the upcoming talks.
Blinken says North Korea is a “hard problem” that’s going to require a lot of carefully-calibrated diplomacy. He urges clear steps from North Korea on the matter to move forward.
“I don’t think there’s going to be a grand bargain where this gets resolved in one fell swoop,” Blinken added. It’s not clear how the US intends to approach North Korea talks, beyond not looking for a big deal.
The Trump Administration went for a big deal, but most progress was lost when the US bragged about giving up nothing in return, and stuck to that for years on end. Blinken seems to be pointing to other US administrations’ strategies to follow, not expecting as much while still giving up nothing in return.
Whatever progress and good will that was being established was torn asunder by John Bolton.
I doubt North Korea’s Mr. Kim is ready to give the American diplomatic corps the time.
Try again in four years.
“It’s not clear how the US intends to approach North Korea talks, beyond not looking for a big deal.”
It couldn’t be more clear. It’s the same with Iran and anyone else we negotiate with. We want everything up front and then we’ll decide if we are willing to give anything in return. Spoiler alert! We’re not.
No grand bargains? Let’s see. We can offer them the Libya, Syria, Iraq, or Korea model. Wait, this is the nuclear capable Korea we are talking about? Never mind, we have no grand bargains for them.
During the “police action”, we killed 30% of their population, wiped out nearly every major city and town, and, for good measure, blasted their dams which caused major flooding which rendered farms wiped out and as a consequence, caused famine.