Posted on 07/01/2018 4:06:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A team of US officials led by envoy Sung Kim met with North Korean officials Sunday at Panmunjom, the border village between North and South Korea in the demilitarized zone, senior State Department officials told CNN.
The talks were the first face-to-face conversations between the two countries since the summit last month between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and were held to work on implementing the agreement reached between the two leaders, the officials said.
Kim is the US ambassador to the Philippines and has been one of the key US officials dealing with the North Koreans leading up to the Trump-Kim summit.
National security adviser John Bolton said on CBS's "Face the Nation" earlier Sunday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would communicate with the North Koreans in the near future about the dismantling of their weapons of mass destruction as well as their nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Bolton said in the interview that if Pyongyang cooperated, the two countries could set out a path to dismantle the programs within a year and put the isolated nation of North Korea on target to receive sanctions relief....
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L.A. Times Disowns Reporter Outed as a CIA Collaborator
September 5, 2014
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-valania/la-times-disowns-reporter_b_5770388.html
Recently released emails indicate that prominent national security reporter Ken Dilanian — formerly with the Los Angeles Times, currently with the Associated Press (and from 1997-2007 the Philadelphia Inquirer) — shared stories prior to publication with CIA press office seeking their approval, according to a story up on The Intercept.
Now, it is not uncommon for national security reporters to vet facts with government functionaries, but the emails indicate Dilanian went much further than that, not only sharing stories prior to publication (a big no-no in almost every newsroom) but he also entered into discussions about how the CIA could bend public opinion of drone strikes their way.
On at least one occasion he re-wrote a lede as per their dictates. He also reported as fact, in the pages of the Los Angeles Times, a CIA claim that there was no collateral murder in a 2012 drone strike on Al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi...
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-tribune-dilanian-20140904-story.html
I hope the uranium story is fake news but Trump should not trust fat boy Kim any further than he can pick him up and throw him. Kim is still China’s puppet.
Deep State may be at it, but so are North Korea surrounding “friends” (like China, etc...) who are just as much an obstacle and always up for a little trouble - enabling Kim Jong Un’s worst impulses. Anything to make America look bad.
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