Posted on 12/07/2019 12:08:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations said on Saturday that denuclearization is off the negotiating table with the United States and lengthy talks with Washington are not needed.
Ambassador Kim Song’s comment appeared to go further than North Korea’s earlier warning that discussions related to its nuclear weapons program, the central focus of U.S. engagement with North Korea in the past two years, might have to be taken off the table given Washington’s refusal to offer concessions.
Kim said in a statement that the “sustained and substantial dialogue” sought by the United States was a “time-saving trick” to suit its domestic political agenda, a reference to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection bid.
“We do not need to have lengthy talks with the U.S. now and denuclearization is already gone out of the negotiating table,” he said in the statement made available to Reuters.
The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tensions have risen ahead of a year-end deadline set by North Korea, which has called on the United States to change its policy of demanding Pyongyang’s unilateral denuclearization and demanded relief from punishing sanctions.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned he could take an unspecified “new path” next year, raising fears this could mean a return to the nuclear bomb and long-range missile testing suspended since 2017.
On Tuesday, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry repeated a call for Washington to change its “hostile policies” and said it was up to Washington to decide what “Christmas gift” came at the end of the year.
Kim Song also hit out at a statement this week from EU members of the U.N. Security Council criticizing recent short range launches by North Korea, calling it a “serious provocation”
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Dear Kim....Get yourself a world map....and get real.
And if I were President I would say, “Fine. Then absolutely NOTHING from the US will go to NK.”
We should give them some concessions.
Spread a dozen hot dog places and two dozen pizzerias throughout NK.
But that’s about it.
The deep state is undermining the President.
The deep state considers your life to be a tiny price to pay. More like a bonus.
Kim has spent too much time watching CNN and MSNBC. He thinks Trump will be either removed via impeachment or will not win re-election
He’s hoping Biden is the next President because he can be easily bought off.
He has chosen unwisely.
Then erase them.
Time for Trump to do a little more QuidProQuo with China.
We'll remove export controls and sanctions against nuclear equipment.
We'll even airmail you some.
This is bullsh*t fake news
Tariffs are working.
Bullcrap.
This is largely his fault. His doing. (Or undoing) “Mr Nobel Peace Prize”. And a stadium full of trained uninformed harp seals wildly clapping and gullibly believing him in July 2018, post-Singapore. Fox News misreading it completely and now spiking the story out of embarrassment.
It can be demonstrably proven over the last silly 18 months. One big waste of time with these dishonest DPRK cheats who have no intention of denuking and opening that dictatorship up
Eat it raw.
He is used to the US giving money for false promises.
You do realize this is all over every news source here in Asia and around the world, the Japanese cabinet and J-defense forces have met on it, and as I speak —over the last week RC-135S’s and W’s, EC-8 surveillance, EC-3 are aggressively up and out of Kadena AB here in Japan and U2-S Dragon Lady transiting ROK laterally on heightened aerial vigilance and that PAC-3s missile defense may have to be put up here in downtown Tokyo again because Fat Boy now threatened to do something before Christmas ? New confirmed activity confirmed at Dongchangri This is all open source info Fake news my ass. Look it up
Repeat. Above is all open source unclassified in public domain, most news outlets here in Japan and S Korea, and additional English sources increasingly including stateside press. Only Fox seems to be downplaying this and I think CNN to some extent with focus on other stuff. Which is usual, prior to something major breaking in Asia endangering American interests. Been that way since Pearl Harbor.
We need to abandon the John Bolton “you must surrender” policy with a Trump deal: We end the Korean war, withdraw our forces & NK denuclearizes. This would be win-win.
They will NOT denuclearize. (Extrapolate how they will) AND they will proliferate the technology to the Middle East and likely attack South Korea.
This is insane logic
What is your response to the news breaking within the last 10 minutes out of N Korea (their news service) about the Dongchangri site yesterday Dec 7 Asia time? You should acquaint yourself with this serious news I think
I’m talking about the notion that this guy speaks for the regime. The article itself points out that Song isn’t involved in the negotiations. He’s talking out of his ass out of hatred for the president - everything you mentioned still being true.
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