Posted on 07/26/2018 10:07:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Central Committee of the ruling Workers Party has decreed that North Korea will not relinquish its nuclear arsenal, which it termed a precious legacy of the countrys late leaders, according to local sources, despite an earlier pledge by party chairman Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
Kim held historic talks with South Koreas Moon Jae-in in April, as well as an unprecedented summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in June, and agreedin principleto abandoning the Norths nuclear weapons program in exchange for promises of regime security and economic prosperity.
But a lack of any concrete agreement on steps to denuclearize and recent reports that progress on talks have slowed, combined with indications that North Koreas ally China has continued to send fuel into the country to ease economic strains caused by international sanctions, have prompted questions over how sincere Pyongyang is about abandoning its weaponry.
A source from North Koreas North Hamgyong province, along the border with China, recently told RFAs Korean Service that the countrys leadership cabal has no intention of entirely ditching the nuclear program it had taken decades to build.
In early July, there was a meeting for the core membership of high-ranking party officials from provincial organizations, party secretaries, and managers from business firms to deliver policy from the Central Committee regarding the current political situation, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The last speaker who ended the six-hour-long meeting emphasized that nuclear is a precious legacy from the late leaders and if there is no nuclear, there is death, he said.
North Korea began acquiring the basic knowledge necessary to develop a nuclear weapons program in the 1950s, under Kim Jong Uns grandfather Kim Il Sungthe nations founderand producing plutonium in the late 1980s under his father Kim Jong Il, before testing its first nuclear device in 2006.
According to the source, many of the officials were taken by surprise by the Central Committees decree.
Public divided
A second source from North Hamgyong told RFA that the Central Committees order had divided North Koreans after news of the meeting filtered out to the public.
Some agree that without nuclear there will be death and some say that it is breaking a promise to the U.S. and the international community, the source said.
The source said officials are confused about whether the reference to nuclear weapons as a precious legacy from the late leaders and the only protection against the obliteration of the country meant that the North could never give them up.
The high-ranking party officials were listening to the speakers at the meeting because they were trying to determine whether Kim Jong Un really doesnt intend to give up nuclear weapons or if it was just part of a ploy to gain leverage in [international] negotiations over the denuclearization process, he said.
This is the first time since the U.S.-North Korea summit that the Central Committee officially declared at a high-ranking party officials meeting that nuclear is a legacy from the late leaders, but it could simply be an ideological statement aimed at tightening discipline among the ranks.
A major obstacle to reaching and implementing any nuclear deal is that the U.S. and North Korea have differing definitions of denuclearization on the Korean peninsula. North Korea wants the extended nuclear deterrence the United States offers South Korea included in any deal, while Washington sees the issue as the dismantling and removal of North Koreas nuclear weapons and facilities.
US media:
JUMPING FOR JOY
“Oooooh..! In yer FACE, Trump...!”
Wolf Blitzer VISIBLY aroused, breathing heavy...
Doesn’t matter, Korea will be unified soon and the nukes will come under allied control, and/or be snuck across the Yalu to China beforehand.
Looks to me as though the sanctions will be around for awhile.
That’s a safe bet.
I think Trump has done his due diligence.
No country can say we didn’t try to find another way out of this.
Now if we have to come to blows, we can do so having made it crystal clear we tried to gift Kim and North Korea with a very rosy future, which it seems to have now rejected.
I’m still not buying the idea this is all a failed attempt either.
We’ll see how it plays out.
Trump put the best deal North Korea will ever see. They’ve just shown that nothing less than war will change the regime.
Yes he will. One way or another. You heard it here first. President Trump, like Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, TR, Wilson, FDR, Truman, JFK, Nixon and Reagan before him, isn’t kidding around.
Kim must go. Hopefully by a North Korean.
This is fake news. They are using sources inside North Korea...Sounds about as legit as sources inside the white house. The Trump administration has a much better grasp than any “news” media and by the way. They aren’t talking.
Agree, Trump has more magic for sure.
Uh the party CANNOT over rule DICTATOR Kim.
It does not work that way.
Trump said to the Vets in his speech...”Don’t believe what media is saying”.....and I don’t.
Thanks gaijin.
Watch Pompeo’s testimony from yesterday. His dodgy comments about NK, if sincere, might help make sense of this.
RE: Watch Pompeos testimony from yesterday. His dodgy comments about NK, if sincere, might help make sense of this.
It is looking like North Korea IS NOT dealing with us in good faith.
Which implies that the status quo remains the same. SANCTIONS REMAIN IN PLACE, the WAR GAMES CONTINUE.
The Kim regime is in Korea? No way! It can’t be because Keeping Up With The Kardashians is in English. /s
There may be a battle going on within.
All kabuki theater. No one has filled Kim’s tin cup which the reason this all started.
Hey, dad got a ton of money from the democrats, why cant I?
Cuz Trump is in charge, put away your tin cup.
“Kim must go. Hopefully by a North Korean.”
At the moment, that would be the worst idea one could imagine.
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