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| NORKS pull off the 'happy-talk' mask, now disappointed by talks with Pompeo |
| 2018-07-08 |
| From a posting late yesterday from our own Elmerert Hupens2660. [France24] High-level talks between the United States and North Korea appeared to hit a snag on Saturday as Pyongyang said a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been "regrettable." North Korea also accused Washington of making "gangster-like" demands to pressure the country into abandoning its nuclear weapons. The statement from the North came just hours after Pompeo wrapped up two days of talks with senior North Korean officials without meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but with commitments for new discussions on denuclearization and the repatriation of the remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War. While Pompeo offered a relatively positive assessment of his meetings, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the U.S. betrayed the spirit of last month’s summit between President Donald Trump and Kim by making "unilateral and gangster-like" demands on "CVID," or the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Pompeo says North Korea should follow Vietnam's example and trust U.S. I understand what Pompeo likely meant. But given the parallels between the post WWII history both of Vietnam and Korea the invocation of Vietnam is prone to be misunderstood by the Koreas, Japan, Taiwan and other US allies. The Norks might now expect to be offered the South in exchange for CVID. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-07-08 21:35 |
| #6 This is part of bargaining. Things were probably not going their way on some issue and threatening to derail the whole thing is a tactic. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2018-07-08 21:04 |
| #5 Maybe Sister has some power behind her brother. When he got home, there was some 'family' discussion. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-08 19:10 |
| #4 "But they were supposed to give us something. They didn't give us something." |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-07-08 11:29 |
| #3 NK has always seemed like it had multiple personalities. Maybe they control internal stress by permitting the 'stressed' to blurt out something like this. If it is too extreme and outside any 'consensus', then strapping the 'stress inducer' to the muzzle of some weapon can bleed off that stressor. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2018-07-08 09:51 |
| #2 Given that CVID was the whole point, I'm guessing the Norks are just working for a better deal - probably some money to pay for cleaning up their nuke junk. Trump can handle this. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-07-08 03:56 |
| #1 This erratic, unpredictable and unreliable demeanor has always been typical for North Korea. This time, however the POTUS is willing and able to behave in a similar way as was shown when Trump agreed to and then canceled and then re-agreed to holding the summit. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-07-08 02:01 |