Kim Jung-Un Framing the De-nuke Issue for Trump
(Caution: Who is more radical)
North Korea's Kim willing to meet Trump a third time
but gives U.S. an end-of-year deadline
From
Japan TIMES and from WSJ:
North Korean
leader Kim Jong-Un said he is willing to meet with Trump for a third time for
nuclear talks — if Washington comes to the table with the “correct posture and meets a year-end deadline for a bold decision from
the U.S.”
In a
dispatch carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) Kim said he
wouldn’t welcome a repeat of the Hanoi summit in February, when Trump walked
out without securing a nuclear disarmament deal.
While hailing his relationship
with Trump, Kim also said the U.S. has been making “gangster-like unilateral demands and should abandon that approach,”
adding: “If the U.S. adopts a correct posture and comes forward for the third
DPRK-U.S. summit with a certain methodology that can be shared with us, we can think
of holding one more talks. Anyway, we will wait for a bold decision from the
U.S. with patience till the end of this year, but I think it will definitely be
difficult to get such a good opportunity as the previous summit.”
The North
Korean leader’s comments suggest he is eager to restart stalled negotiations
despite his cryptic threat earlier to explore a new path if crippling sanctions
remained in place. That threat, as well as warnings by senior North Korean
officials after the Hanoi breakdown, stoked fears of a return to missile
launches and nuclear tests.
Trump, for
his part, said the door to dialogue remains open and that a
summit could happen, but he also continued to maintain a hard line on the
easing of sanctions and rejected calls to revive economic projects between
North and South Korea (that ROK
President Moon Jae-in recently suggested).
My 2 cents: Trump “Art of the Con” failure 101 – Kim
Jung-un controlling the platform NOT Trump.
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