Jimmy Carter and Kim Il Sung, 1994
Posted on 10/09/2017 6:26:35 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Former US Pres. Carter Wishes to Visit N. Korea and Meet Kim Jong-un
Write : 2017-10-09 13:34:11 Update : 2017-10-09 16:33:09
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter reportedly wishes to visit North Korea and meet leader Kim Jong-un to discuss North Korea’s nuclear programs.
Park Han-shik,, a professor emeritus at University of Georgia who is an expert on North Korea, told Yonhap News Sunday Carter wants to play a role in resolving the serious situation, as he did during the Clinton administration in 1994.
Park said that Carter wrote a recent editorial in the Washington Post to convey to Pyongyang his wish to visit.
The piece suggested sending a high-level U.S. delegation to Pyongyang for peace talks. Park said the North has not responded yet.
Park says U.S. President Donald Trump has rejected several offers by Carter to travel to Pyongyang, saying the situation is one for the present administration to handle, not a past president.
GREAT.... two idiots with megalomania meeting to see who’e IQ is lower!
No Jimmy, we don’t need you giving away things that are not yours.
He could give away his secrets of success in peanut farming if there were any.
Jimmy...please take Van Jones with you.
Jimmy can go meet with BamBam at Man’s Country.
We don’t need Jimmah spreading more Democrat lies to North Korea.
He’s already done enough damage to Israel.
Not just no! Every life or limb taken in the ME is carters fault! His shah problem started this entire thing. We have been paying in money and blood since his reign of idiotacracy.
Jimmy and others should answer to God Almighty for the number of Koreans who have died during the time he had the power to make changes and up until now.
Would Jimmy have offered to sit down with Hitler and work out a diplomatic solution?
Probably
Kim Jong Un is s monster
Trump is correct.
meet leader Kim Jong-un to discuss North Korea’s nuclear programs
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25 years of discussions, talks, negotiations and concessions have yielded nothing. Zero, zip, nada.
Its delusional idiots like Carter and their naive policies that have led us to this dangerous point. He needs to butt out. Can’t wait for Trump to tweet him on this.
Jimmy Carter and Kim Il Sung, 1994
“In 1994, the United States and South Korea were on the brink of war with North Korea, convinced that the North was moving to develop nuclear weapons,” Carter’s story begins.
North Korea had pulled out of the International Atomic Energy Agency and threatened to expel its inspectors. The U.S. was pushing for U.N. sanctions. Tensions were high.
North Korean President Kim Il Sung invited Carter to visit, and Carter went. After two days of talks, Carter and Kim reached a “breakthrough” agreement “to freeze North Korea’s nuclear program in exchange for the resumption of a dialogue with the United States.”
There was just one problem.
Jimmy Carter wasn’t the president.
“Completing his mission to North Korea, former President Jimmy Carter hugged the country’s dictator on Friday and called the trip ‘a good omen,’ the New York Times reported, “but immediately touched off a squabble with the Clinton Administration over whether North Korea had specifically offered to freeze its nuclear weapons development project.”
The Times reported that while the White House had approved and encouraged Carter’s trip, U.S. officials “had not expected to get swept into negotiations that were being carried out on television.” At one point, Secretary of State Warren Christopher woke up foreign ministers in Asia to piece together a response to Carter’s televised comments before he started another negotiating session.
But President Bill Clinton went along with it. He held the first direct talks with North Korea in 40 years and agreed to send $4 billion in energy aid to the country’s “hard-line Communist leadership,” as the Times described them, in exchange for a commitment to freeze and dismantle its nuclear weapons development program.
The deal was better than a continuing confrontation, White House aides told the Times, even though it allowed North Korea to keep fuel rods that could be converted to fuel for nuclear weapons.
Clinton declared that he had achieved “an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula,” Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize, and North Korea detonated its first nuclear weapon in 2006, a few years after admitting that they’d been violating the accord from the start.
With a little luck they keep him there, but I am afraid we may not get this lucky.
He is officially forbidden from going, as he is a private American citizen. He’ll break federal law if he goes, and I doubt Trump is going to OK such a kowtow visit, and if he did, that would certainly expose Trump as a phony and an idiot, so I think this whole thing will have a dead end and is a non-starter. (Knock. On. Wood.)
/Sarcasm off
Maybe Kim will decide it for him.
So when this arrogant a-hole ends up in a North Korean jail, then what? War?
His mom, Lillian Carter had this to say about her offspring.
“Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.”
Moms know best.
Trump should rephrase his travel ban, restricting Carter only from returning.
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