Posted on 04/25/2021 4:50:46 AM PDT by Cronos
South Korean President Moon Jae-in criticized former President Trump's attempts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, telling the New York Times he "beat around the bush" with North Korea and "failed to pull it through."
Why it matters: Moon, now in his final year in office, called denuclearization a "matter of survival" for South Korea and urged President Biden to resume negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after a standstill of nearly two years.
What they're saying: “I hope that Biden will go down as a historic president that has achieved substantive and irreversible progress for the complete denuclearization and peace settlement on the Korean Peninsula,” Moon told the Times.
“He beat around the bush and failed to pull it through,” he said of Trump. “The most important starting point for both governments is to have the will for dialogue and to sit down face to face at an early date.”
Moon also called on the U.S. to cooperate with China on North Korea and other issues, warning that if "tensions between the United States and China intensify, North Korea can take advantage of it and capitalize on it."
Context: Talks between the U.S. and North Korea and unprecedented engagement between Trump and Kim quickly soured after the two countries couldn't reach a substantive agreement on denuclearization and drawing down sanctions.
Moon sucking up to Biden?
So stick with biden and the little bastard will have you for dinner very soon, idiots!
Ungrateful little piece of dung! Our president was the first to ever make any progress in securing peace in Korea.
Alas they are all the same - the left is the left everywhere.
OK, fine. Let’s vacate our bases in South Korea - let them dump another 5% of their GDP into defense.
North Korea is not going to dump its nuclear program. Like Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey and Germany, it is time for a thankless South Korea to go its own way.
How disappointing but not surprising.
Just another craven politician, a run of the mill hack.
Who was beating around the bushes?
I recall at least two Bushes, Clinton and Obama. Probably more.
North Korea is a hard case, the example of ultimate government.
Very hard case.
Trump at least put quite a hold on nuclear experiments, there were no rocket launches for a while etc. A lot bigger achievement than the predecessors.
And, he did not bribe the Kims!
All his predecessors negotiated. They came up with some agreements. These were always “we pay, they stop”. We paid, money, food, other stuff, canceled restrictions, etc. They never stopped!
Trump was at least “you stop first, then we will do what you want”. They actually slowed down, almost stopped, we did not pay!
First approach that made sense!
And he made definitely some impact!
Missile Boy was afraid of Trump,as were his Red Chinese masters. Nobody’s afraid of Plugs...not even the dog.
Bull. POS Putin and X I pulled N Korea back. Remember the conference?
Typical low life. He knows good and well that Trump was completely sabotaged by the state department, Bolton, Mattis and by Republican leaders who were prattling on about the mueller farce and constantly threatening impeachment.
yup.
President Trump met face to face with him. Not sure if President Moon has ever met with the NOK’s
Since it's impossible to plumb the depths of Liberal credulity and lack of basic logic.... anything is possible...bank on THAT!!
Moon sucking up to Xi.
Moon wants the sanctions lifted on NK. He wants to surrender to extortion again.
Moon’s leftist party just got its @ss handed to them in the mayoral elections of Seoul and Busan. Roughly the equivalent of the GOP in Korea swept into both offices. He is the lamest of lame ducks which is probably why Axios did the interviews. Takes a lame stream publication to understand a lame duck politico.
OK Mister Moon, you show us how it’s done then.
Here’s the truth: Trump wouldn’t give North Korea a boat load of money the way Obama gave to Iran for nothing in exchange. North Korea wanted, and still wants a sweetheart deal like Iran got.
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