Thomas Promise Posted May 24, 2018 Report Share Posted May 24, 2018 The whole world hoped this summit would bring peace to this troubled area since the end of World War 2. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-off-meeting-north-koreas-kim-135250907.html Link to comment
Randy W Posted May 24, 2018 Report Share Posted May 24, 2018 The whole world hoped this summit would bring peace to this troubled area since the end of World War 2. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-off-meeting-north-koreas-kim-135250907.html link is broken (w/garbage characters) - correct link is https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-off-meeting-north-koreas-kim-135250907.html Link to comment
dnoblett Posted May 24, 2018 Report Share Posted May 24, 2018 Playing hardball.https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/letter-chairman-kim-jong-un/ Link to comment
Randy W Posted May 25, 2018 Report Share Posted May 25, 2018 Not even ping pong balls - just a lack of interest. I'm surprised that NK wasn't even interested in the hand-outs. 'Trump formula'? North Korea says still open to talks after summit canceled Pyongyang had not responded in recent days to queries by the United States about the leaders’ summit, Pompeo told a Senate hearing. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Tokyo understands Trump’s decision to cancel the Singapore summit, Kyodo News reported. “It’s meaningless to have talks that don’t achieve results,” Kono told reporters on a visit to Mexico City, the news agency said. Link to comment
Randy W Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 from Denny Roy (Washington, D.C,) and the SCMP Denny Roy is a senior fellow at the East-West Centre The East–West Center, or the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. Wikipedia North Korea’s latest moves show how Kim Jong-un has turned the tables on the USPyongyang has its nuclear missile capability despite Washington’s efforts, and with help from Beijing and Moscow and a US election next year, Kim is now asserting leverage over America Nor has Pyongyang jumped at Washington’s promise of prosperity in exchange for denuclearisation, for two good reasons. First, foreign investors are not eagerly queuing up at North Korea’s gates. North Korea is notorious for defaulting on its international financial commitments and has perhaps the world’s worst political and legal environment for foreign businesses. Second, the Kim regime does not want a flood of foreign economic (and, inevitably, ideological) influence; it wants a targeted and insulated inflow of cash and goods, but would prefer its people remain poor if that is necessary to keep society weak relative to the state. . . . Pyongyang much prefers dealing with Trump instead of his expert advisers. Still, Kim’s government displays remarkable audacity in publicly directing Trump to sideline Pompeo. At a minimum this indicates considerable self-confidence on Kim’s part. It also suggests Pompeo has been doing a reasonably good job in pressing Pyongyang to negotiate in good faith. Having acquired his nuclear missile capability despite attempted US intimidation, with China and Russia helping North Korea circumvent sanctions, and with Trump dependent on the appearance of success prior to the 2020 US election, it is now Kim who is doing the squeezing. 1 Link to comment
Randy W Posted October 27, 2019 Report Share Posted October 27, 2019 from APNews (6 hours ago) North Korea says it's running out of patience with US In a statement published by Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency, senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol said there has been no substantial progress in relations despite warm ties between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump. He said the persisting hostility means “there can be the exchange of fire at any moment.” Kim Yong Chol said the Trump administration would be “seriously mistaken” if it ignores an end-of-year deadline set by Kim Jong Un to propose mutually acceptable terms for a deal to salvage nuclear negotiations. . . . He said the United States was getting on North Korea’s nerves by demanding its “final and fully verified denuclearization” while pushing other U.N. countries to strengthen sanctions and pressure on the North. He said Washington has been attempting to “isolate and stifle” North Korea in a “more crafty and vicious way than before,” instead of heeding Kim Jong Un’s call to change its approach in nuclear negotiations. . . . The North expressed its displeasure with a flurry of short-range missile tests while Kim said he would “wait with patience until the end of the year for the United States to come up with a courageous decision.” Washington and Pyongyang resumed working-level discussion in Sweden earlier this month, but the meeting broke down amid acrimony with the North Koreans calling the talks “sickening” and accusing the Americans of maintaining an “old stance and attitude.” Link to comment
Randy W Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 from WaPo North Korea snubs Trump, saying he hasn’t earned a new summit to ‘brag about’ In a blunt put-down Monday, North Korea rejected what a senior adviser to Kim called another “fruitless” one-on-one with Trump. It was the latest reminder that Trump’s open-door policy for bargaining with authoritarians means those leaders can slam the door in his face. “We are no longer interested in such talks that bring nothing to us,” said Kim Kye Gwan, a veteran diplomat and Foreign Ministry adviser. “As we have got nothing in return, we will no longer gift the U.S. president with something he can brag about.” Trump had hinted Sunday at a possible next summit with the North Korean leader as part of a foreign policy venture that represents his boldest effort to remake U.S. diplomacy. Trump’s offer to North Korea is explicit: Give up your nuclear weapons, and receive sanctions relief that will allow you to become a regional economic powerhouse and vacation destination, complete with luxury hotels. Link to comment
Randy W Posted December 3, 2019 Report Share Posted December 3, 2019 from WaPo A North Korean Christmas? North Korea warns United States of an unwelcome ‘Christmas gift’ North Korea said Tuesday that dialogue with the United States has been nothing but a “foolish trick” and warned Washington that it could be on the receiving of an unwelcome Christmas gift. The North Korean regime has given the United States until the end of the year to drop its “hostile policy,” come up with a new approach to talks and offer concessions in return for its decision to end nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests in 2018. Despite the tensions between the two countries, President Trump sounded an almost affectionate note about Kim Jong Un in London on Tuesday, expressing his confidence that North Korea would still denuclearize. But he also noted that the North Korean leader “likes sending rockets up, doesn’t he?” “That’s why I call him Rocket Man,” Trump said. Link to comment
Randy W Posted December 6, 2019 Report Share Posted December 6, 2019 A potentially serious international incident? No - this is NOT from the "Onion" North Korea Threatens New ‘Dotard’ Insults if Trump Revives Name-Calling North Korea threatened to resume tit-for-tat insults against President Trump two days after he called its leader, Kim Jong-un, a “Rocket Man.” North Korea’s first vice foreign minister, Choe Son-hui, said that if Mr. Trump deliberately stoked “the atmosphere of confrontation” once again, then that “must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard.” . . . “If Trump’s remarks on use of force and metaphor were a mistake, it would be a relief, but if they were a calculated provocation intended against us, that makes things different,” Ms. Choe said. Perhaps it's just time for another love letter. Link to comment
eseum Posted December 7, 2019 Report Share Posted December 7, 2019 I think both sides got what little they could out of it and the honeymoon is over! Link to comment
Randy W Posted December 22, 2019 Report Share Posted December 22, 2019 Santa Kim at work . . . from the NY Times U.S. Braces for Major North Korean Weapons Test as Trump’s Diplomacy Fizzles President Trump’s summits with Kim Jong-un have failed to bring concrete results, and the diplomatic vacuum has given North Korea more time to build its nuclear arsenal. Mr. Kim visiting the Changrindo defensive position in a photograph provided by the official Korean Central News Agency.Credit...KCNA, via Reuters Link to comment
danb Posted December 23, 2019 Report Share Posted December 23, 2019 So who won in this adventure? Are we any better off? Wonder what our response will be. Hope it is a wise one. Link to comment
Randy W Posted January 2, 2020 Report Share Posted January 2, 2020 So who won in this adventure? Are we any better off? Wonder what our response will be. Hope it is a wise one. I guess Trump didn't get his "vase" . . . Link to comment
Randy W Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 from the NY Times - unconditional love? Trump Writes to Kim Jong-un Offering Help in Virus Fight, North Korea Says “I would like to extend sincere gratitude to the U.S. president for sending his invariable faith to the Chairman,” said Kim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader’s sister and policy aide, in a statement carried by the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency. Ms. Kim lauded Mr. Trump’s decision to write the letter as “a good judgment and proper action.” According to Ms. Kim, Mr. Trump also explained his plan to move relations between the two countries forward and “expressed his intent to render cooperation in the anti-epidemic work, saying that he was impressed by the efforts made by the Chairman to defend his people from the serious threat of the epidemic.” . . . Ms. Kim said on Sunday that her brother had “mentioned his special personal relations with President Trump again and appreciated the personal letter.” But she said good personal relations between the two leaders were not enough to improve their countries’ ties. . . . Officially, the North has reported no coronavirus cases, although it says it is waging an all-out campaign against the virus. Outside health experts fear that the isolated country might be hiding an outbreak. Link to comment
Randy W Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 from the NY Times - unconditional love? or is it unrequited love? see also CFL topic http://candleforlove.com/forums/topic/46367-china-on-north-korea/?p=644333about the possible coronavirus situation in NK. Trump Writes to Kim Jong-un Offering Help in Virus Fight, North Korea Says “I would like to extend sincere gratitude to the U.S. president for sending his invariable faith to the Chairman,” said Kim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader’s sister and policy aide, in a statement carried by the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency. Ms. Kim lauded Mr. Trump’s decision to write the letter as “a good judgment and proper action.” According to Ms. Kim, Mr. Trump also explained his plan to move relations between the two countries forward and “expressed his intent to render cooperation in the anti-epidemic work, saying that he was impressed by the efforts made by the Chairman to defend his people from the serious threat of the epidemic.” . . . Ms. Kim said on Sunday that her brother had “mentioned his special personal relations with President Trump again and appreciated the personal letter.” But she said good personal relations between the two leaders were not enough to improve their countries’ ties. . . . Officially, the North has reported no coronavirus cases, although it says it is waging an all-out campaign against the virus. Outside health experts fear that the isolated country might be hiding an outbreak. Link to comment
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