So much for Trump’s Nobel Peace prize….
While that country has stopped test firing missiles and testing nukes…
It HAS gone ahead in working to upgrade that same nuclear weapon effort…
A lot of us understand what Trump’s military intelligence people have concluded…
North Korea is NOT gonna give up it’s nukes….
And North Korea Kim Jung Un now is a world figure that has got the American military to stop flexing it military might on its borders….
Sec of State Pompeo painted a rosier picture in public for his boss to see then what is reported he has expressed in private….
North Korea said Saturday that high-level talks with a U.S. delegation led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were “regrettable” and accused Washington of trying to unilaterally pressure the country into abandoning its nukes.
The North’s statement came 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.
Before departing Pyongyang, Pompeo told reporters that his conversations with senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol had been “productive,” conducted “in good faith” and that “a great deal of progress” had been made in some areas. He stressed that “there’s still more work to be done” in other areas, much of which would be done by working groups that the two sides have set up to deal with specific issues.
The North provided a much harsher assessment of the talks, saying that the United States betrayed the spirit of last month’s summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim by making “one-sided and robber-like” demands on “CVID,” or the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea….
Wow!
The North Korean’s say the US. Has gone ‘gangster’ on trying to get rid of the NK nukes……
This whole minuet with Kim has been surrealistic.
Axios on the process with North Korea…
…For this gambit to have any chance of succeeding, Trump is going to need to demonstrate a strategic patience — and willingness to withstand short-term setbacks and humiliations — that’s anathema to his makeup. …
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