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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Exactly. Kim has learned what he has to do to survive in NK. Once he starts trying to change the game, though, his personal danger goes way up.
Glad handing and smiling with a murdering dictator and thinking that showering him with compliments will reverse 70 years of systematic criminality.
Maybe chuck would feel better if Trump gave massive amounts of money to fund Islamic terrorists, like obama did.
Someone might want to ask Schumer about the FDR Russian policy between 1933 & 1945.
I think he sees “exit from untenable situation” even more than “wonder of a country.” It may be America that marches out of there protecting Kim in a Cadillac, headed for exile. I would stomach that in exchange for a free inified Korea.
The lefties hate that Trump is actually accomplishing what he sets out to do. They’d rather have Obama’s inaction, while Kim just continues to build his arsenal.
This Capo is the lowest of the low!
... unified Korea I mean.
Has Schumer told President Trump who the legitimate Leader of NK is so he doesn’t make that mistake again?
It turns out that the progressive zealots actually can’t get their minds out of the past.
Chucky, the senator from New York, is actually regressive
How about Obama standing in Havana with Castro in front of a mural of Che Guevara? Not a peep out of Schmuckie’s mouth then...
http://www.ticotimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/160321Cuba.jpg
Or how about Obama shaking hands with Hugo Chavez?
https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01386/obama-chavez_1386798c.jpg
These people are pathetic...
Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3
Jun 12
North Korea a monster State. Their people literally live in a slave regime. Malnutrition. Tens of thousands die in concentration camps. Elites doled out rewards by JKU. Total control by a single family. Zero chance denuke. Summit empty promises.
You mean like Cuba? Iran? Venenzuela?
Technically a Cease-Fire, so would you rather have a Hot War?
A God-sized gesture is taking place here. The bible does say that government is “established” by God and bestowed with privileges and charged with duties. Even if Kim has utterly muffed these duties and misused these privileges, his post deserves respect.
Donald cuts Gordian knot by hinting that he’ll shoulder the stink. Kim’s probably thinking “Bug out to a nice place.”
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