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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,741 posts)
Mon May 21, 2018, 08:12 PM May 2018

Pence: North Korea will 'end like the Libyan model' if Kim does not cooperate

Vice President Pence warned in an interview on Monday that talks between the U.S. and North Korea could end like Libya's denuclearization process if Kim Jong Un does not cooperate.

"You know, there was some talk of the Libyan model last week. And as the president made clear, this will only end like the Libyan model ended if Kim Jong Un doesn't make a deal," Pence told Martha MacCallum on Fox News.

"It would be a great mistake for Kim Jong Un to think he could play Donald Trump," Pence said, adding that there is no question Trump would be willing to walk away from the talks if they prove unproductive.

"But we hope for better. We really hope that Kim Jong Un will seize the opportunity to dismantle his nuclear weapons program, and do so by peaceable means," he said.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/388709-pence-north-korea-talks-will-end-like-libya-is-kim-jong-un-does-not

Tough talk from a chickenhawk

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Pence: North Korea will 'end like the Libyan model' if Kim does not cooperate (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2018 OP
And Kim is not suicidal dalton99a May 2018 #1
Pence is an ass n/t RKP5637 May 2018 #2
Yeah, That's Going To Bring Him Right To The Bargaining Table Me. May 2018 #3
And we ended up with Benghazi Freethinker65 May 2018 #4
Now they're openly threatening to kill Kim and damn the collateral damage to... brush May 2018 #5
Trump could care less how many are killed. He's truly a sociopath. He has no emotions. Why RKP5637 May 2018 #6
True, all of that. And him and Bolton and Pence seem to think China and Russia... brush May 2018 #10
They're going to ignite a war and the US will be smashed. We have absolute egotistical fools RKP5637 May 2018 #11
It is like North Korea never fought us to a standstill with help from China. Blue_true May 2018 #15
Pence is the dumbest Christian dominionist I know sharedvalues May 2018 #7
Well , that will help him agree to getting rid of his weapons JI7 May 2018 #8
Yep, sure will. Blue_true May 2018 #16
So Pence also failed history? guillaumeb May 2018 #9
And as the North Koreans noted, Libya was just at the beginning of nuke... brush May 2018 #12
Why is it Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #13
i'm sure the SK will appreciate the US model when artillery shells start falling on Seoul KG May 2018 #14
This strikes me as totally unhelpful RandomAccess May 2018 #17
"It would be a great mistake for Kim Jong Un to think he could play Donald Trump," smirkymonkey May 2018 #18

brush

(53,743 posts)
5. Now they're openly threatening to kill Kim and damn the collateral damage to...
Mon May 21, 2018, 08:19 PM
May 2018

not just North Koreans but to South Koreans also as Kim has thousands of artillery pieces trained on Seoul just a few miles south of the DMZ.

You can bet that summit will not happen, now that Bolton and now Pence have made this brazen threat.

RKP5637

(67,086 posts)
6. Trump could care less how many are killed. He's truly a sociopath. He has no emotions. Why
Mon May 21, 2018, 08:22 PM
May 2018

is it so hard for so many Americans to grasp this. Do many not even understand what that means. Plus, he has a narcissistic personality disorder.

brush

(53,743 posts)
10. True, all of that. And him and Bolton and Pence seem to think China and Russia...
Mon May 21, 2018, 08:26 PM
May 2018

will just sit back and let the US wage war on a client state in their backyard.

God help us as we've got idiots who don't know what the fuck they're doing in charge.

RKP5637

(67,086 posts)
11. They're going to ignite a war and the US will be smashed. We have absolute egotistical fools
Mon May 21, 2018, 08:29 PM
May 2018

running the US.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
15. It is like North Korea never fought us to a standstill with help from China.
Mon May 21, 2018, 10:21 PM
May 2018

Pence thinks that BOTH China and Russia will sit around and let us bomb North Korea back to the stone ages?

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
7. Pence is the dumbest Christian dominionist I know
Mon May 21, 2018, 08:22 PM
May 2018

Oh wait. They’re all dumb. That’s why they follow guys who want to fleece them like Osteen and Graham.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
16. Yep, sure will.
Mon May 21, 2018, 10:24 PM
May 2018

North Korea started their crazy hunt for Nukes because we came within one key approval of nuking them. Now Trump and Pence are alluding to bombing Kim. How crazy.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
9. So Pence also failed history?
Mon May 21, 2018, 08:25 PM
May 2018

Libyan denuclearization was years removed from the Libyan civil war that toppled Gadaffi.

brush

(53,743 posts)
12. And as the North Koreans noted, Libya was just at the beginning of nuke...
Mon May 21, 2018, 08:35 PM
May 2018

development unlike NK which actual has nukes which means that they are a substantial threat themselves along with being a client state of China and Russia.

God help us. Fools are in charge.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
13. Why is it
Mon May 21, 2018, 10:06 PM
May 2018

repubs can threaten and hint at death....2nd amendment remedies, Guns guns guns and what they're going to do w folks who aren't white, but, when we even think the thought of the same remedies may happen to dt....we get all jelly inside and afraid an fbi agent is going to show up at your door? Does the fbi speak with these fools that say these things? Only the gop can put people in fear of death and nothing happens.
What gives?

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
18. "It would be a great mistake for Kim Jong Un to think he could play Donald Trump,"
Mon May 21, 2018, 10:31 PM
May 2018

WTF?

A five year old could play Donald Trump. Pence is an even bigger moron that I thought. Kim has already played Trump and has been all along. God, help us. There has never been a more incompetent, ignorant, naive administration in the history of the US.

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