Posted on 06/13/2018 7:38:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday criticized a joint diplomatic statement released a few hours before from President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un as lacking detail and giving Kim too much room to back out.
Schumer said by meeting with Kim, Trump has given “a brutal and repressive dictatorship the international legitimacy it has long craved.”
“It is best not to dive in head first and hope for the best but rather to work slowly, transparently and verifiably to build trust and lock in concessions,” Schumer warned.
Schumer argued the agreement lacks detail on achieving a pathway to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, on how the United States may verify that North Korea has disarmed and on how to ensure that North Korea stops enriching plutonium and uranium.
“The document is short on details,” Schumer said. “As we have learned in the wake of the collapse of the 1994 and 2005 agreements, North Korea is liable to backtrack on vague commitments as soon as it's in their interest.”
Schumer argued that Kim has “a history” of backing out of agreements and raised concern that the North Korean leader may not make any further concession now that he scored the public relations coup of meeting with a U.S. president as an equal on the international stage.
“It is worrisome, very worrisome, that this joint statement is so imprecise,” he added.
Schumer said he was also very troubled by Trump agreeing to suspend joint military exercises with South Korea, the United States's longtime ally.
Schumer defended those exercises as legal and said they were given up for the “mere hope” that North Korea will freeze its “illegal nuclear testing regime.”
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Bravo! Well done.
What did Chucky have to say about Obama’s deal with Iran?
Moron.
How does he feel about Obama secretly going around banking laws to help Iran?
If only we had an honest media. These bums would be long gone.
You said it.
Had it not been for Clinton and Obama he might still be years away from having the bomb.
Hey - isn’t that the cleaning lady?
Ha! Although I CAN understand the mistake...
The problem is that Obama would not have done what Trump has done. He would have given them concessions, which Schumer and his ilk would have been fine with.
Our side would have been complaining about any deal with NK that Obama would have fronted...and rightly so!
You can always expect the author, Alexander Bolton, to parrot democrap party lines.
Or in Obama’s treatment of Castro and his thugs?
If we can’t talk to “brutal” leaders, we can’t talk to dozens of world leaders from China to Russia to Mexico to African leaders to S. American Leaders to middle east leaders ……...
When bammy s***ed the iran mullahs’ d***s, that was what? Bam gave them a deal that was all benefit to them, and no benefit to us, as befits a man who hid his membership in the religion of peace and who used his presidency to benefit and promote the religion of peace.
Schumer is such a SCHUMK!
Chucky is upset that Trump suspended war games that weren’t scheduled to start until next year. By then, we’ll know if NK is serious and can restart them.
Don’t let facts get in the way of your political posturing.
Jack***
What total unbelievable hypocrisy! The Iran deal is not transparent, even today, years after it was signed. We are discovering new hidden things in it, all of them detrimental to the USA, including bribes and non-incentives for Iran to comply to anything.
North Korea, on the other hand, has been technically at war with us and S Korea for 65-70 years. Trump has begun a break-through that may lead to a peace in the peninsula. The end of a 65 year war does not happen in one step or treaty. Both sides have to see what each does as time passes before another step is taken.
Clearly, for dems, there is NOTHING Trump can do that is acceptable, no matter how much it helps the US or the world. Just as there was nothing, no matter how egregious, that Obama could do, that was not totally wonderful, full of hopey change.
UpChuckie never met a brutal and repressive dictator he didn’t like.
Dumbass schumer says “move slowly”, then criticizes for not seeing “more detail” in the agreement (which is a result of moving a little at a time, i.e., “slowly”). What a dipstick.
Schmuckie Schumer need not worry about losing more hair; his head will never sunburn...
What did Ocommie do for your Muslim buds in Iran, you unAmerican SOB?
” “a brutal and repressive dictatorship the international legitimacy it has long craved.””
I guess he is talking about the current Democrat party.
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