They're not kidding. The classic satellite shot of the Koreas:
Posted on 05/13/2018 10:59:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that if North Korea agrees to fully dismantle its nuclear weapons program, the Trump administration will allow the American private sector to invest in the country.
Pompeo also hinted that the US might assure Kim Jong-un he can stay in power after any deal.
If a deal is reached at or after the summit meeting between Kim and Trump scheduled for Singapore on 12 June, Pompeo said on Fox News Sunday, “private sector Americans, not the US taxpayer” could “help build out the energy grid that needs enormous amounts of electricity in North Korea”. Americans could also help, he said, with investment in infrastructure and agriculture to help feed the North Korean people....
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This would take years to accomplish, plenty of time to work out problems.
The undeveloped country provides a huge opportunity for companies.
This I just the pre-meeting butter.
This provides a better means to obtain that end.
6 countries have been involved in the conversations on North Korea.
Reducing it to Trump only....that was Kim's dream.
My first thought was what the NORKS could attain being employed by Americans in their own country.
Kim is a puppet of an ideology that he personally can't keep going.
I think he's glad there is an out for him.
The goal should be reunification, in which case little rocket man would be gone, and the south will bear the cost of reunification. The US should should not give a penny, look at at the cost of military protection since the Korean war.
I saw Chris Wallace this morning, and I could tell he had a burden on his heart about human rights violation in North Korea and whether or not the United States would recognize Rocket Man’s continuance in power. Wallace is not alone.
I don’t really remember commentators saying anything close to that regarding the nuclear deal Obama made with Iran.
Or FDR in Yalta, Truman in Potsdam, the Paris Peace Talks, etc...
Hasn't worked in China. They are still destroying churches and jailing Christians.
That was never the intention for dealing with China but it is freer than before we started dealing with it after the Revolution.
They're not kidding. The classic satellite shot of the Koreas:
Pay attention - nothing about us doing any nation-building.
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