US still 'not heard directly back' from Norea Korea: Tillerson

[DonViejo]

Source: Times of India



AFP | Updated: Mar 12, 2018, 22:52 IST

ABUJA: The United States has still "not heard anything directly back" from Pyongyang over plans for a US-North Korean summit, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday as he urged patience.

"There will be several steps (which) will be necessary to agree on the location and the scope of those discussions. We have not heard anything directly back from North Korea although we expect to hear something," he said in the Nigerian capital Abuja.

"These are all questions people are anxious to hear answers to. I would say, 'remain patient'."

Pyongyang has been silent since last Thursday's blockbuster announcement in Washington that US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet by the end of May to discuss the nuclear standoff in the Korean peninsula.



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[dalton99a]

1. Well, call them, dumbass

Your boss is anxious to go

[Iliyah]

2. Because Kim Jong Un is probably laughing his arse off at

t-rump and the USA.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. The very idea Trump would have made this a news thing before having

front channel commitment from NK to participate is ...

Oh fuck it's equal parts sad and hilarious.

[Freethinker65]

3. Poor Rex. Left out of the loop again...

And left with a descimated State Department to plan and negotiate when the time comes. The U.S. is so screwed.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Does Korea even need Trump to negotiate peace? Would America invade Korea during

denuclearization just before reunification?

President Moon may be pondering that question. And the question of America having no South Korean ambassador, the last one quitting in disgust with Trump's childish war babble.

[Drifter]

5. You didn't try to call me

Zappa - You didn't try to call me

[Liberalagogo]

6. "Norea Korea"

Is that a song from "East Side Story"?

[rsdsharp]

8. Of course you haven't heard from them directly, you jackass.

We don't have formal relations with North Korea. That's why the invitation to the "summit" was carried by South Korea.

[left-of-center2012]

9. Norea Korea ?

Wasn't that an old 60's song?

[rickford66]

10. NK taken by surprise.

Kim didn't think it would be this easy to hook a fish. Now he has a leg up. Watch for offer of a military parade and fancy dinner.

[NCjack]

11. Looks like the classic prom dance breakup -- standup your needy date. nt