Report: All Biden Administration Attempts to Contact North Korea Have Failed

Breitbart ^ | 3/15/2021 | frances martel

[bitt]

Unnamed alleged officials in the administration of President Joe Biden confessed to Reuters this weekend that attempts to communicate with the communist regime of North Korea since Biden took office have been met with silence.

Reuters, citing the officials, claimed the Biden administration used several traditional “behind-the-scenes” avenues to reach out to dictator Kim Jong-un in an attempt to rekindle diplomatic talks, but Pyongyang did not respond to any of them. Since Biden’s inauguration, North Korean state media — often the only metric for gauging regime sentiment in the highly secretive country — has largely ceased referring to the United States in general, outside of its typically belligerent attacks in columns about the still ongoing Korean War. One state media outlet, the relatively obscure DPRK Today, has referred to Biden as president, but the two biggest outlets — the state newspaper Rodong Sinmun and the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) — have not done so.

Prior to his presidency, state media routinely attacked Biden as a “dotard” and enemy of Pyongyang. In one particularly severe condemnation, KCNA urged the American people to kill Biden, addressing him as a “rabid dog.”

In contrast, the North Korean state appeared more cooperative with Biden’s predecessor, President Donald Trump. Trump met with Kim Jong-un in person on two occasions — the first sitting American president to hold a summit with a North Korean dictator — and maintained regular communication with the regime. The talks yielded no significant policy achievements, but North Korea ceased its nuclear weapons testing after the Trump administration led an international sanctions campaign in response to its last test in 2017.

[Mr. K]

Trump knew exactly the right way to approach to every world leader

[Widget Jr]

To clarify, the original Reuters article Exclusive: North Korea unresponsive to behind-the-scenes Biden administration outreach - U.S. official does not say "unnamed alleged officials". What it actually says:

"....senior Biden administration official told Reuters on Saturday."
"The senior Biden administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity,..."
"The Biden administration official said..."

Now, I don't like and distrust the MSM as much as everyone else here. What bugs me is when journalists on both sides take someone else's story, and spin it and imply the spin is in the original. "Unnamed alleged officials" is Breitbart's spin on what Reuters did not say at all.

[M Kehoe]

Yo bro. Call Rodman, he will grease the rails.

Jen, listen up...

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5.56mm

[Republican Wildcat]

Biden administration has failed in all aspects. Either intentionally or by stupidity and incompetence. But, their efforts will soon return things to “normal” - total chaos in the middle east where things were actually getting slightly more stable, stabilizing the provocative behavior of North Korea, allowing our allies to pick our pockets again rather than pulling their own weight.

Back to the “old normal.”