Posted on 03/02/2019 4:42:48 AM PST by DoodleDawg
orth Korea had the more accurate take on what happened at the summit with President Donald Trump before talks failed, according to an official with the U.S. State Department.
The president claimed Thursday that he had walked away from negotiations in Hanoi after Kim Jong Un demanded that all sanctions against the nation be lifted.
Basically, they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldnt do that, Trump said. We had to walk away from that.
But Pyongyang representatives called a late night news conference later that day to correct Trumps statements, saying that Kim wanted only economic sanctions imposed since 2016 lifted and not any concerning weapons. In exchange, Kim offered to shut down the nations main nuclear complex and was prepared to offer in writing a permanent halt to the nations nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests, according to his officials.
North Koreas account of the sanction issue was accurate, a State Department official said Friday in a briefing to the media, The Associated Press reported that Kim had sought the lifting only of United Nations Security Council sanctions imposed since March 2016 not sanctions going back decades. The concession would have removed sanctions on a range of goods, but not weapons.
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While we might term it one thing, a democrat would call it "patriotism".
I think you’re confusing the total amount of money transferred to Iran with the subset of that money transferred in cash on pallets. The pallet money is usually reported to be around 1.5 billion dollars. Still a scandalous amount, of course.
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