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From ABC News
North Korea said Thursday it will never unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States first removes what Pyongyang called a nuclear threat. The surprisingly blunt statement jars with Seoul's rosier presentation of the North Korean position and could rattle the fragile trilateral diplomacy to defuse a nuclear crisis that last year had many fearing war.
The latest from North Korea comes as the United States and North Korea struggle over the sequencing of the denuclearization that Washington wants and the removal of international sanctions desired by Pyongyang. The statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency also raises credibility problems for the liberal South Korean government, which has continuously claimed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is genuinely interested in negotiating away his nuclear weapons as Seoul tries to sustain a positive atmosphere for dialogue.
The North's comments may also be seen as proof of what outside skeptics have long said: that Kim will never voluntarily relinquish an arsenal he sees as a stronger guarantee of survival than whatever security assurances the United States might provide. The statement suggests North Korea will eventually demand the United States withdraw or significantly reduce the 28,500 American troops stationed in South Korea, a major sticking point in any disarmament deal.
COMMENT:-
The rumour that Mr. Trump was planning on issuing a statement that he had never met Mr. Kim, that (even if he had ever met Mr. Kim) there had never been any so-called "agreement" between the United States of America, that (even if there had been such an agreement proposed) he had never signed it, that (even if he had signed such an agreement) he had only done so on the advice of counsel and there was nothing about the signing that was improper, that (even if there was something about the signing that was improper) the agreement was purely a personal matter between him and Mr. Kim, and that maybe Mr. Kim was planning on building more nuclear weapons and rockets but maybe he wasn't and (since all the evidence wasn't in yet) we shouldn't make up our minds yet - besides his gut told him that this was all fake news even though the so-called "experts" said it wasn't and that he was going to go with his gut is completely FALSE!
Well, isn't it?
N. Korea says it won't denuclearize unless US removes threat
North Korea said Thursday it will never unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States first removes what Pyongyang called a nuclear threat. The surprisingly blunt statement jars with Seoul's rosier presentation of the North Korean position and could rattle the fragile trilateral diplomacy to defuse a nuclear crisis that last year had many fearing war.
The latest from North Korea comes as the United States and North Korea struggle over the sequencing of the denuclearization that Washington wants and the removal of international sanctions desired by Pyongyang. The statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency also raises credibility problems for the liberal South Korean government, which has continuously claimed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is genuinely interested in negotiating away his nuclear weapons as Seoul tries to sustain a positive atmosphere for dialogue.
The North's comments may also be seen as proof of what outside skeptics have long said: that Kim will never voluntarily relinquish an arsenal he sees as a stronger guarantee of survival than whatever security assurances the United States might provide. The statement suggests North Korea will eventually demand the United States withdraw or significantly reduce the 28,500 American troops stationed in South Korea, a major sticking point in any disarmament deal.
COMMENT:-
The rumour that Mr. Trump was planning on issuing a statement that he had never met Mr. Kim, that (even if he had ever met Mr. Kim) there had never been any so-called "agreement" between the United States of America, that (even if there had been such an agreement proposed) he had never signed it, that (even if he had signed such an agreement) he had only done so on the advice of counsel and there was nothing about the signing that was improper, that (even if there was something about the signing that was improper) the agreement was purely a personal matter between him and Mr. Kim, and that maybe Mr. Kim was planning on building more nuclear weapons and rockets but maybe he wasn't and (since all the evidence wasn't in yet) we shouldn't make up our minds yet - besides his gut told him that this was all fake news even though the so-called "experts" said it wasn't and that he was going to go with his gut is completely FALSE!
Well, isn't it?
