Posted on 05/15/2018 10:14:06 PM PDT by Pinkbell
North Korea on Wednesday injected further uncertainty into plans for a highly anticipated summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump.
The reclusive regime said it will reconsider the historic June 12 meeting scheduled to take place in Singapore if the U.S. insists on Pyongyang relinquishing its nuclear weapons, Reuters reported, citing North Korea's state news agency KCNA.
The development is the latest sign of possible backtracking by Kim following the ruler's months-long international charm offensive that was widely hoped to clear tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Earlier, the rogue state canceled talks with South Korea and threatened to ditch the June 12 summit in protest over Washington and Seoul's joint military drills.
Wednesday's news "is classic North Korean playbook," said Sean King, senior vice president at consulting firm Park Strategies.
Ongoing peace efforts, which include Kim'ssummit with South Korean leader Moon Jae-In last month, may "be moving faster than North Korea ever expected and this is sort of their passive-aggressive excuse to get out of it," according to King.
Trump will remain as a "failed president" if he follows in the steps of his predecessors, KCNA added on Wednesday.
Pyonyang will never engage in economic trade with the world's largest economy in exchange for giving up weapons, KCNA continued, adding that North Korea rejects Libya-style denuclearization.
Libya voluntarily gave up its nuclear ambitions in 2003 in order to get out from under economic sanctions. The country's dictator Moammar Gadhafi was eventually overthrown in a Western-supported coup and killed in 2011.
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Time for President Trump to repeat the famous President Reagan quote:
“There you go again,” Little Rocket Boi.
No de nuclearization, heavy sanctions will continue and possibly an embargo. Let’s see how the fat little despot fares without his Chevez Regal!
Kim and his generals will always get their Chivas and steak dinners, not to mention young hookers from the countryside; it’s everybody else who’s out of that loop, and they couldn’t care less.
He/They have no incentive whatsoever to make a deal, and jerking around the outside world’s politicians is their favorite hobby; an unending source of sh*ts and giggles.
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