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North Korean officials seek meetings with GOP analysts to figure out Trump: report
The Hill ^ | 09/26/2017 | BY MAX GREENWOOD

Posted on 09/26/2017 11:43:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

North Korean officials have sought meetings with Republican analysts in Washington in an effort to better understand President Trump.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that North Korean government officials have been reaching out to Asia experts with GOP ties since before the recent bout of threats between Trump and Pyongyang broke out.

“Their no. 1 concern is Trump," one person familiar with North Korea's outreach told the Post. "They can’t figure him out."

In all, Pyongyang has requests out to seven organizations that have helped arrange and host meetings between North Korean officials and Americans in the past.

Trump and North Korean officials have been engaged for months in a back-and-forth of threats and insults that appeared to reach new heights on Monday when the country's foreign minister called a tweet from Trump a declaration of war. He also said that the North would shoot down U.S. aircraft even outside of North Korea's airspace. That the North Koreans are looking to talk with Republican-connected experts and analysts does not signal that they are ready to sit down for negotiations, according to the Post. Pyongyang has insisted that the country be recognized as a nuclear weapons state — a demand rejected by the U.S.

North Korean officials have met with Americans in neutral places, like Geneva and Kuala Lumpur, in the past. Those meetings, known as "Track 1.5" talks, are considered official by Pyongyang and unofficial by the U.S.

The North Koreans, however, have become more interested in making sense of Trump's strategy and intentions, according to the Post.

Among those that the North Koreans have sought meetings with include Bruce Klingner, a former CIA analyst and a North Korea expert at the Heritage Foundation. He declined the invitation.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: analysts; klingner; northkorea; trump; trumpnk; trumpsfault
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1 posted on 09/26/2017 11:43:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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“Their no. 1 concern is Trump," one person familiar with North Korea's outreach told the Post. "They can’t figure him out."

Maybe he's inscrutable.....................

2 posted on 09/26/2017 11:45:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Swamp colluding with the NORKs? Who would have thunk it!


3 posted on 09/26/2017 11:45:46 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: SeekAndFind

In their experience the President should have paid up by now.


4 posted on 09/26/2017 11:46:28 AM PDT by AU72
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To: SeekAndFind

” how and when might we attack so you GOP guys can maximize poritical advantalge and depose baaad Meestah TLump..?”


5 posted on 09/26/2017 11:47:02 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: SeekAndFind

Ahh, no is the time for the analysts to tell them that Trump has a hair-trigger temper and can do anything if not placated. Best off handing the baton off to a Chinese strongman and someone not named Kim as Korean figurehead, an Kim Jung Un can live in obscure opulence somewhere in a remote location with not outbound communication instead of getting whathe deserves in this life.


6 posted on 09/26/2017 11:47:48 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Red Badger
“Their no. 1 concern is Trump," one person familiar with North Korea's outreach told the Post. "They can’t figure him out."

Maybe that's the way Trump wants it.

7 posted on 09/26/2017 11:47:49 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Islam delenda est.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They threaten to nuke us, the President takes umbrage at that...and they can’t figure him out.

Alien minds truly are alien, I guess.


8 posted on 09/26/2017 11:48:24 AM PDT by bazineta
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sure there are plenty of “Republicans” who will gladly bad mouth Trump to the Norks.


9 posted on 09/26/2017 11:48:42 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Red Badger

He is the first one that has kept the Norks guessing. Bush and Clinton and Obama were entirely too easy to figure out. Bush was naive as hell. Clinton was for sale. Obama and the Norkeans shared an enemy.


10 posted on 09/26/2017 11:49:17 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t this a violation of the Hatch Act..?


11 posted on 09/26/2017 11:49:44 AM PDT by gaijin
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Kim, you better believe Trump isn’t kidding.

Think or die...


12 posted on 09/26/2017 11:50:35 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national puch-bowl.)
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To: SubMareener

Leaders are not all stupid enough to fall for the Norklear extortion routine. We don’t pay that game anymore. ?


13 posted on 09/26/2017 11:50:36 AM PDT by blackdog
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No one in their hierarchy has ever seen a POTUS like this.

The last one was probably Nixon, and all those people in NK are probably dead or senile...................


14 posted on 09/26/2017 11:51:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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No, it’s a violation of the Sedition Act................


15 posted on 09/26/2017 11:51:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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“He also said that the North would shoot down U.S. aircraft even outside of North Korea’s airspace”

That and a dollar will get your country turned into a glass parking lot.

5.56mm


16 posted on 09/26/2017 11:51:55 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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LOL...good one. Only us old-timers will get it.


17 posted on 09/26/2017 11:51:55 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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North Korean officials seek meetings with GOP analysts to figure out Trump: report

I guess they're realizing that he can't be manipulated like his last four predecessors.

As far as explaining President Trump, I suggest "Dirty Harry" Callahan - Clint Eastwood, show up and ask them "Do you feel lucky punk?".

18 posted on 09/26/2017 11:52:17 AM PDT by 21st Century Crusader (If you are not standing for The Flag or The Anthem, you damn well better be in a wheelchair!)
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Translation:

Our game of manipulation isn’t working. We need to figure out how to make it work with President Trump.


19 posted on 09/26/2017 11:52:24 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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“North Korean officials seek meetings with GOP analysts to figure out Trump: report”
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Prolly this is quite amusing to POTUS.45!
He’s got them thinking like Rs/AINOs now!!!!!

GyG/RED: Retired, Extreme,Deplorable!
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20 posted on 09/26/2017 11:52:42 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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