Trump downplays North Korean denial of negotiating terms

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 03/01/2019 08:37 AM EST

President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed any dissonance between the United States and North Korea after nuclear talks with Kim Jong Un fell apart earlier this week without a deal.

“Great to be back from Vietnam, an amazing place,” Trump tweeted. “We had very substantive negotiations with Kim Jong Un - we know what they want and they know what we must have. Relationship very good, let’s see what happens!”

Competing versions of each side’s demands emerged after Thursday’s summit in Vietnam between the two leaders.

Trump said in a news conference afterward that Kim demanded complete relief from sanctions in exchange for incremental progress toward denuclearization, while North Korean representatives in a rare press conference later disputed that account.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/01/trump-kim-summit-2019-1197242

[Moostache]

1. For F's Sake...STOP with the "we'll see what happens..."

Real life is NOT a goddamn episode of your hideous TV-show life you fucking twit.

Jesus, Gaia, Allah, Budda, Tom Cruise's god...whoever holds sway....PLEASE explode his goddamn heart and end this nightmare for the planet!

[underpants]

5. It's also like clickbait internet stories

“...and you won’t believe what happened next!”

[Dennis Donovan]

2. The disputed account:

"What we proposed was not the removal of all sanctions, but a partial removal," North Korea's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ri Yong-ho, said Thursday, according to a translator. In exchange for partial sanctions relief, Ri said North Korea was willing to “permanently and completely” dismantle its Yongbyon nuclear material production facility "in the presence of U.S. experts."

[Kurt V.]

3. NK can't be believed. That's nothing new. sadly our negotiators (under tRump) can't either

[Docreed2003]

4. The thing that's really amazing to me is that ANYONE could buy this BS

You're telling me that a US President went halfway across the world to meet with a notorious dictator and all we get in return is "good talks, now we know what they want". This is fucking ridiculous and absolute bush league shit! You're telling me these "revelations" couldn't have been figured out over the telephone?! Don't we have diplomats who hash this stuff out ahead of time to spare the executive branch embarrassment? Oh wait, Donnie Shortfingers knows better than all of them. Ugh...this is infuriating. We paid for a trip for our "President" to have a nice dinner and photo op, legitimize a dictator, and then look like an ass! Great

[soryang]

6. The all or nothing approach promoted by Bolton won the day

It's the neo-con approach, actually little more than regime change in disguise.

It's the US that follows the so called "one-bundle" approach, and it's the North that emphasizes a step by step phased approach of reciprocal trust building measures. It is the US that has followed the all or nothing approach, not North Korea. Everyone outside the US knows this. It was downplay expectations, small deal, small deal, to get them back to the table. When they got there it was I want the big deal, just like before, no sanctions relief.

This has been its position from the very outset. Before each summit, the administration has hinted that they might take a step by step approach only to get the North to come to the table, once at the table they reneged each time. Pompeo reneged last July after the June summit bringing about the so called stall in the talks, and now they've done it again.

"Now that many of the critics of that initiative have got what they wanted—a tougher approach to North Korea—they have to accept the consequences, whatever they may be."


What Happened in Hanoi?
BY: JOEL S. WIT AND JENNY TOWN
FEBRUARY 28, 2019

https://www.38north.org/2019/02/editor022819/

“38 North, a webjournal that provides analysis and insights into North Korea“

[Guilded Lilly]

7. Two egomaniacal, twisted narcissist, untrustworthy, pathological liars met...

In Hanoi.
No loyalties
No truth
No deal

No kidding.
Imagine that.

Insanity prevails.

[ROB-ROX]

8. THE ART OF THE DEAL

Old bone Spurs is an IDIOT. He blows it big time publicly and it is not even in the news!!!! His drone voters are spared from knowing he FAILED when dealing with a BIGGER idiot!!! Now I know why the stupid people had voted for him........they never knew how BAD he was because they sucked up to his "glorious" self versus learning about his failures when using his idiot tactics.....

[rickyhall]

9. A con man always denies being conned.