Posted on 06/22/2021 10:45:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Biden administration is eager to meet with North Korean officials “anywhere, anytime without preconditions,” a top U.S. diplomat said on a visit to South Korea Monday, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signaled that his regime is preparing for dialogue or confrontation — but more for confrontation — with Washington.
Ambassador Sung Kim, whom President Biden tapped last month to serve as U.S. special envoy for North Korea, made the comments during a meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts in Seoul, asserting that administration officials “hope [North Korea] will respond positively to our outreach.”
At the same time, Ambassador Kim said the administration remains committed to keeping sanctions in place against the North Korean regime.
“We will also urge all U.N. member states, especially U.N. Security Council members, to do the same, to address the threat posed to the international community by the DPRK,” he said, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.
Ambassador Kim’s visit to Seoul this week underscores the Biden administration’s desire to rejuvenate dialogue with North Korea after more than two years of stalled denuclearization talks. The trip comes less than a month after a visit to the White House by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a strong advocate of talks with the North Koreans.
Ambassador Kim, a career U.S. diplomat, played a key, but largely behind-the-scenes, role in facilitating dialogue with the North Koreans during the Trump era. While serving as U.S. ambassador to Singapore in 2018, he helped lay the groundwork for the 2018 Singapore summit between Mr. Kim and President Donald Trump.
Diplomacy between Washington and Pyongyang briefly reached historic levels during the Trump administration, with Mr. Trump meeting three separate times with Mr. Kim.
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Biden is all carrots and no Trumpian sticks.North Korea is watching the Biden giveaway in Iran so it makes sense they want to meet with his administration to get some of that free stuff too.
There’ll be at least a dozen posters on this thread who excoriate the feckless and weak Biden for pursuing the exact same policy as Trump.
And they’ll use the same arguments the Dims used then.
😂 too funny!
I have to admit, Xiden could woo Kim. I think Kim would be fascinated if Xiden brought his old friend Corn Pop along and played some hoops with Kim.
It’s not the policy, fat.
Read post #4 and you might figure it out.
too funny
The administration but not biden. Maybe send kamala.
They can work on a joint venture to manufacture soylent green facilities—for the common good....
If I was liddle rocket man, I’d light off some rockets on July 4 just to spoil Xiden’s cookout.
Maybe send Trump. If North Korea does the usual little girls dancing display Biden just might lose control.
So much hair to sniff with so little time.
He’ll be happy to give Kim a list of targets. What a damn fool.
Biden begging for a photo op that will give him some credibility. His staff is certainly not happy with his image of a doddering old man.
Oh, wait till Kim sees his leg hairs!
What a loser.
Bring food.
The Bidens know the Kaa Ching process, they are really good at it. It has nothing to do about us its all about their own $$$$$$.
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