White House: North Korea must take 'steps' before Trump-Kim meeting
Source: The Hill
BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 03/09/18 02:56 PM EST
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday that the U.S. will require North Korea take concrete and verifiable steps before President Trump sits down with Kim Jong Un.
The White House had not previously said that there were any preconditions for the talks when it announced late Thursday that the president would be open to meeting with the North Korean leader in the next few months.
This meeting won't take place without concrete actions that match the promises that have been made by North Korea, Sanders said.
South Korean officials have said that Kim will suspend his ballistic missile tests in the hopes of opening a dialogue.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/377642-white-house-north-korea-must-take-steps-before-trump-kim-meeting
hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)Who could not predict that?
Javaman
(62,517 posts)they are just a bunch of assholes constantly covering for the trumpster fire.
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)You don't publicly announce "yes!", and then pile on conditions afterwards.
Fucking amateurs.
brush
(53,764 posts)Totally unqualified for the office, but at least Stormy's off the front page.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)rsdsharp
(9,165 posts)Donnie Dumbass will impose the condition that NK get rid of the nuclear weapons, before he engages in talks as to whether they will get rid of their nuclear weapons.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,306 posts)A meeting by May at a place to be determined is now replaced with a meeting at some place and at some time. The fixed time before which seems gone. Sanders also spoke of needing to see concrete and verifiable steps toward denuclearization for the summit to happen. But from what we understood last night, nothing like that was promised. What was apparently promised was suspending further nuclear or ballistic missile tests before the meeting and presumably in a subsequent period of negotiation or normalization. Theres no need to verify any of this. The US can tell very easily when a ballistic missile is fired or when theres a nuclear test.
Again, in the Trump administration, you cant assume that the Press Secretary knows what she is talking about, that she is speaking for US policy or that US policy wont change in the following hours or days. But this briefing strongly suggests that the White House sees what happened yesterday as a major mistake or misstep that they are now trying to moonwalk back as quickly as possible.
That read is strengthened by this report from The New York Times about how last night happened
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white-house-now-trying-to-moonwalk-back-trumps-summit-goof
Mr. Trump, the official said, then asked Mr. Chung to tell him about his meeting with Mr. Kim. When Mr. Chung said that the North Korean leader had expressed a desire to meet Mr. Trump, the president immediately said he would do it, and directed Mr. Chung to announce it to the White House press corps.
Mr. Chung, nonplused, said he first needed approval from Mr. Moon, who quickly granted it in a phone call. Mr. Trump later called Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, and the two discussed coordinating diplomatic efforts. Mr. Trump also plans to call President Xi Jinping of China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/politics/north-korea-kim-jong-un-trump.html
elleng
(130,865 posts)'Diversion.'
duforsure
(11,885 posts)designed to distract away from the Stormy Daniels story. Media should stop covering him and his sensationalism claims , when he reverses his statements and does this over and over to them . He's a fraud. Now they ought to spend twice the time on the Stormy issue.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,919 posts)As usual a big nothing burger