Who’s side is the State Department on, anyway? /s
It’s a meaningless distinction, bottom line is Trump and Pompeo both decided to take take a tough stand. Very few people we6l disagree with that. Regardless of whether “all” includes sanctions put on by other presidents, NK was hiding number sites and only offering to dismantle one facility.
Bottom line, Trump wanted more weapons concessions before removing any sanctions, they wouldn’t, so he walked.
State is crammed full of Deep Staters. Always has been.
I don’t see why the State Dept. “spokesperson” couldn’t be named. It was a press briefing, right? I assume Pompeo knows who it was. Could it have been Pompeo?
You too can rewrite history if you are a democrat
This NEVER happened when King Barack I ordered pallets of cash totaling $150B under cover of darkness to be flown to Iran’s murderous mullahs, bribing them to sign his treasonous “Iran Nuclear Deal.” (Because “treaties” have to be approved by the Senate, and he didn’t have the votes.) Not a peep from the State Dept. about that flagrant abuse of power.
Pompeo should be sacking the holdovers from the Obama cabal in the State Dept.
Trump did the right thing. The trouble with the State Department is that they are overloaded with Obama-Clintonites.
Dont believe this version. Fake news!
It is the sanctions since 2016 that brought them to the table.
THAT’S RIGHT, DUMBASSES- UNDERMINE YOUR PRESIDENT PUBLICLY ....
DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..............
It is a certainty that Trump understood and in making his statement did not distinguish between sanctions.
Splitting hairs did not matter. Kim did not offer what was required
Like it matter what N Korea claims! Trump walked away... that’s all that matters.
Art of the deal- be prepared to walk away! Always!
“an official” from the State Dept.
Name the EFFing official.
Well......do you believe the Norks, or do you believe our President? Through HOW MANY DEALS have our previous POTUSes gone, only to have the lying, cheating Norks break them? I smell fake news from the drive-bys, as well as NK lies. C’m on! These are heathen infidels! All they KNOW is lying and CYA! They must be thoroughly retrained. But Trump WILL win.
Of course the State Department sided with North Korea over our duly-elected President of the United States. Hillary created that department in her own image, and too much of the horse manure is still there.
Not sure they did call it wrong. The AP and Huffpo seem to have manufactured a contradiction out of an ambigity while obscuring their narative serving assumptions by paraphrasing rather than giving full quotes.
I believe Trump is only speaking in generalities, no one is going to grasp the details in that moment. The state briefing i read clearly stated that after being rejected for "all" sanctions, they asked only for the economic sanctions as they stated . . . .
Makes sense to give them that, except . . . . . it was rejected simply because to do so (lift those specific sanctions) would be in essence subsidizing their on-going nuclear program . . . . USA came back with how much (specificly) are you willing to shut down the Yongbyon nuclear site. North Korea did not have a sufficient answer. Say Good-bye!
Anyone who has ever negotiated with Koreans, Chinese know that when you walk away and they come back with an offer or even a correction (being nice) they are soooo ready to deal!!!
I believe it is very possible one or more (there are eleven??) of the economic sanctions may be lifted as a big carrot.
This is from “Atlantic”, so how much if it is true?
Kim was reportedly caught by surprise that we knew that they had not suspended their nuke program already. That indicates to me that they were most likely misrepresenting their true position, or else how would it have come up?
It is not good that the two parties break from an unproductive session with one saying one thing and another saying another. It is a bit of a switch to say that it is the American president who is lying.