Scoop: Classified Israeli report raises doubts over Trump-Kim summit

[DonViejo]

Source: Axios



Barak Ravid of Israel's Channel 10 news 3 hours ago

A classified report from Israel's foreign ministry raises doubts over President Trump's optimistic statements about his summit with Kim Jong-un, and determines the U.S. retreated from its positions on several issues relating to North Korea's nuclear program.

Behind the scenes: The classified report, which I obtained a copy of, provides an initial analysis of the summit. It was circulated yesterday by the research department of the Israeli foreign ministry to all Israeli embassies around the world and to many senior officials at the Prime Minister's office and other government agencies.

Two main points:

The summit left many question marks. There are substantive gaps between U.S. policy statements before the summit on the need for "full, irreversible and verifiable" denuclearization and the joint statement signed at the end of the summit, which only referred to "complete denuclearization."

Trump's readiness to accept Kim's demand to halt U.S. military exercises with South Korea is a retreat by the U.S. and an acceptance of China's "freeze-for-freeze" approach. The Israeli foreign ministry analysts note that the U.S. had previously rejected the Chinese position.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/israel-casts-doubt-on-success-of-north-korea-summit-8a15d92d-6f4b-41a1-8bba-a8a68377f4b1.html

[Sophia4]

1. Somebody's lying and knows it. But who?

[comradebillyboy]

5. Both Trump and Kim are liars.

[Sophia4]

6. Thank you.

[lagomorph777]

2. Fees for freeze

Putin is paying fees to Trump and Kim, to freeze the US out of defending its (former) ally, South Korea.

[gibraltar72]

3. Did both Israel and China have ears in the room?

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

7. Never under estimate Mossad

[JI7]

9. based on this report they are just referring to what is already know. but they just think

all the crap trump is claiming is BS .

[yallerdawg]

4. CVID is supposed to be the standard when wasting time with North Korea.

The fact that this White House negotiated nothing is not lost on our allies.

[SergeStorms]

8. Uh oh.....

now Israel is on Trump's shit list. He'll start insulting them at every turn and probably cut their foreign aid. You have to keep your secrets secret, Israel!