I wonder how long after the State department started working with North Korea on arrangements for the heads of state meeting that these ‘preconditions’ started percolating. Perhaps I’m just a bit jaded, but it would not surprise me in the slightest if the changes were suggested by Foggy Bottom.
>> Perhaps I’m just a bit jaded, but it would not surprise me in the slightest if the changes were suggested by Foggy Bottom.<<
I don’t think you’re jaded at all. That is exactly the kind of treasonous activity the Deep State operatives at State are likely to have engaged in. President Trump should have directed Pompeo and Bolton to micromanage the advance work, and should instruct them to do so beginning NOW!
You have the right instinct to distrust the State Dept.
But believe me, this is entirely coming from the North. It is common tactic.
There was nothing of concrete specifics in the Kim-Moon love fest last week.
That is why the President must lower expectations and stop publicly overvaluing the Panmunjom meeting which was all optics and bullshit anyway, and defuse this unhelpful and somewhat inappropriate Nobel talk when we are still a zillion miles away from securing true denuclearization. It will likely only happen when the Kim family is no longer in power or the Workers Party has fallen.