Posted on 01/12/2020 11:09:37 PM PST by knighthawk
The Trump administration has “reached out to the North Koreans” to ask them to resume diplomacy since the two sides broke off talks last October, White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien told Axios Sunday.
"We've reached out to the North Koreans and let them know that we would like to continue the negotiations in Stockholm that were last undertaken in early October,” he told the news service.
"We've been letting them know, through various channels, that we would like to get those [negotiations] back on track and to implement Chairman Kim's commitment to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” O’Brien added.
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Kim is right to be leery about cutting a deal. The US cannot be depended upon to carry out commitments from one administration to the next.
If I were NK, I would not be looking to reopen negotiations with the US right now.
“The US cannot be depended upon to carry out commitments from one administration to the next.”
Agreed. This is also one of the reasons that China was dragging it’s feet on the trade deals.
When that rushing sound turns out not to be rain, but rather piss on our national leg. What a disaster.
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