North Korea 'Stood Up' U.S. Team During Summit Prep, White House Official Says

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



After that, Trump dictated ‘every word’ of the letter to Kim calling off the summit

ADAM RAWNSLEY
05.24.18 3:01 PM ET

A week before Donald Trump announced that he was scuttling a high-profile summit with Kim Jong-Un, White House officials were “stood up” by their North Korean counterparts at a planned meeting in Singapore, according to a senior administration official.

During a conference call with surrogates on Thursday afternoon, Deputy Assistant to the President for Asian Affairs Matt Pottinger did not explicitly say that the non-connection in Singapore was directly responsible for Trump cancelling the summit. But he painted it as a contributing factor to ultimately cancelling the bilateral meeting.

"Unfortunately there's been a succession of broken promises that have given the United States pause,” Pottinger said. The call was conducted on an off-the-record condition. However, The Daily Beast was not a party to the call and was briefed by a source who recounted Pottinger’s comments.

Pottinger revealed that the White House sent an advance team to Singapore–including at least one deputy chief of staff—to meet with the North Koreans and discuss logistics for the possible summit. “There they waited for three days,” Pottinger told conference callers. “The North Koreans never showed up. They never told us anything. They just stood us up.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/north-korea-stood-up-us-team-during-summit-prep-white-house-official-says

[Blue_Adept]

1. It's a race to the bottom on who to trust more

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. "Unfortunately there's been a succession of broken promises that have given the United States pause,

If Hillary or Barack or Joe had been prez there would be no PAUSE because there would have been no shit deal to start with.

God he is a stupid fucking person

[Zoonart]

3. Oh... stood up eh?

That explains the break-up letter.

[C_U_L8R]

4. This is what happens when you scuttle the State Dept

The Trumps are a bunch of crooks, kleptos and Jareds.
Incompetent amateurs. It's no surprise that they're tripping
over their own shoelaces. But hey, they got a medallion.

[procon]

5. When I was a teenage girl, being stood up was the worst thing

that could happen. Even if was getting stood up by the craziest, creepiest boy in school, all the other kids still laughed and whispered, and the only recourse was to write bitter, weeping prose about the end of the world.

Y'all remember that, right?

[turbinetree]

6. And then shit for brains writes a letter.....................about the break-up

like some forlorn teenager..................and then makes a commemorative coin..........to stiff the US taxpayers

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. TT, I believe a huge factor in this latest event is...

that the key players are two rabidly narcissistic individuals. Neither will accept even the most insignificant of slights, and history bears that out for both. Kim has killed people for less and tRump is infamous for revengeful behavior all his life.

This is a big concern and with dangerous men like Bolton and Pompeo in the brew, nothing should surprise us......

[turbinetree]

12. Yepper, spot on

there both malignant narcissistic psychopaths....................what could possibly go wrong.............

[Polly Hennessey]

7. Do you seriously believe Mr. Pottinger?

[hatrack]

9. Why would we believe this fable?

Why would believe anything these vipers say? WHY?

[shanny]

10. Go figure...

after Bolton and Pence both threatened Kim, and after the dotard in chief already gave away the store, for nothing (iow conferring legitimacy on NK regime by agreeing to meet at all).

Foreign leaders certainly have his number don't they?

[Igel]

11. It's interesting in that it breaks the usual cycle.

Upgraded threat.

Dick-wagging.

North Korea want compromise.

Everybody greets this is praise. Concessions.

NK shows mild belligerance.
*
Everybody is concerned and produces more concessions to mollify the North.

Agreement is reached with more concessions.

NK eventually is seen to be duplicitous.

If under (D) president, "They killed Kenny! The bastards!" If under a (R) president, "The (R) bastard didn't trust NK and so it's they're fault."

* is an appropriate time to derail this oft-repeated train of events. (It's not the *only* possible place, of course.)

Now it's uncharted waters. The constant |: :| has been hit by a jump to a later part of the score.

[Javaman]

13. lovers spat.

or something weird like that, because the whole reporting and reaction from the orange asshole regarding this thing seems kinda really fucking creepy.