Posted on 06/12/2018 3:03:25 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
A former top diplomatic official for the Obama administration on Tuesday said President Trump granted Kim Jong Un more power than he deserved by flying the American and North Korean flags side-by-side over their recent summit.
She also slammed Trump's team for not knowing "what they're doing."
Wendy Sherman, a former undersecretary of State for political affairs, said on MSNBC that she was "a little taken aback" by the backdrop when Trump first shook hands with Kim, a historic first for the leaders of the two countries, earlier on Tuesday.
"I was a little taken aback by the North Korean flags and the American flags side by side ... We aren't equals to each other," Sherman said. "This conferred power to Kim Jong Un that I don't think he has yet earned."
Sherman's comments came only hours after Trump and Kim met for the first time. Trump announced afterward that the U.S. would put an end to its joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises while negotiations take place. He also mentioned that Pyongyang agreed to destroy a missile testing site and that he and Kim signed a joint statement in which the U.S. pledged to provide North Korea with “security guarantees” in exchange for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Sherman, like some other critics, criticized the agreement's lack of details. She added that many previous negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea included far more specifics.
"As far as the agreement is concerned, I went back and looked at the previous agreements. The 1992 North-South agreement on joint declaration on denuclearization was very specific: no nukes, no facilities, inspections," Sherman said. "The agreed framework that was done in the Clinton administration was very specific: Close down the reactor until we get light water reactors."
Sherman added that what Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill did in 2005 was noteworthy, considering he asked for the "verifiable" denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. That deal later broke down over verification.
"We have not only been here before, but we’ve been here before with much greater specificity," Sherman said. "So [Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo needs to go back and understand a little bit more about history and needs to go forward with a team that knows what they’re doing."
That’s how you negotiate.
Whereas Obama made Iran look like our superiors when he gave them $150 bn for not even signing the fake unratified agreement.
What a racist thing for this Obamanoid to say. What a pig.
STFU and go sit in the corner Wendy.
Did Trump bow?
Says the guy who sent unmarked planes filled with cash to Iran as part of agreement no one got to read.
As opposed to being laughed at, lied to, pushed around, bent over, abused, and being looked at like a straight up, BITCH, like obama was?
I’m ok with what the President did. Have to play to someone’s personalities to get them to do what you want them to do. It’s called, LEADERSHIP.
But I thought all cultures are equal? Right, lefties?
Top Obama official: it was fine and dandy when Obama and Raul Castro were watching a baseball game together..hey that’s not the same thing!!
If this had been Hillary Clinton they would be congratulating her for her fine negotiating skills
Coming from the assholes whose boss made America look subordinate to everyone else.
Now who was it that Red China screamed “This is our country” at, again? Oh yeah: Obama. Not Trump.
how do incompetents have the nerve to critique smart productive people.
These people are so hypocritical. When Obama went overseas to say...um Saudi Arabia and Japan he bowed to their leaders. I guess the little Kenyan put them ABOVE our country and that was OK?
Again, reminds me of when officials of the Johnson and Carter administrations in particular would lecture about Reagan’s mid 1980s summits with Gorbachev, basically telling Reagan to give what ever the Soviet Union wanted right then and there.
Generals who worked for Obama's buds got fired.
Too bad.
It’s from the DNC blast fax. All the libs were saying it yesterday. All the NeverTrumpers are saying it today. The same loser mentality that let him build up an arsenal in the first place.
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