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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If anyone meets with NK without the President’s approval, on behalf of this nation, they should be charged with sedition.
This is exactly how desensitized we have become. A nation we may be on the brink of war with wants to get some advice from other politicians in the USA?
Now if Trump approves of someone to meet with them, I’m fine. I hope that designated representative tells NK, “He is dead serious. We haven’t gotten an opportunity to test our latest technological nuclear arsenal in decades.”
It's actually pretty simple.
1) Quit shooting rockets over Japan.
2) Quit shooting rockets at Guam.
3) Quit detonating nuclear bombs.
4) Quit threating South Korea, Japan and United States.
Dennis Rodman took the NORKs a copy of the Art of the Deal. That is all they have to know. Just read the manual.
Starting to sweat a bit?
Bingo! They keep amping up the threats, now to insane levels, and there's no hint of a payoff. So it's "What the hell is wrong with your president?"
“They threaten to nuke us, the President takes umbrage at that...and they can’t figure him out.”
They feel entitled to the way they look at the world and they’re used to American Presidents who cower before them. This President doesn’t do that and so they’re suddenly confronted with a reality that doesn’t square with the official party line of Pyongyang.
I was wondering.....................
Read the article. Everyone the North Koreans have contacted has declined to help them in any way.
PERFECT!
Let them talk to Rosie O’fuckerself.
[As far as explaining President Trump, I suggest “Dirty Harry” Callahan - Clint Eastwood, show up and ask them “Do you feel lucky punk?”.]
LOL Was going say to send them a DVD of Dirty Harry.
“We win, you lose. The only question is how messy.”
““He also said that the North would shoot down U.S. aircraft even outside of North Korea’s airspace””
That, and even on its worst day, the USAF is exceedingly dangerous in the air and the Norks should approach this with -some- gravity. USAF or USN fighters against the North Korean Air Force would be no contest.
Rocket man asks to blink.
“In their experience the President should have paid up by now.”
Exactly. They were expecting a back door payment. The only payment they will get is an a-bomb on Lil Kims headquarters.
I would go one step further and call it treason.
And drop a hundred pounds. You fat.
Presidents who don’t knuckle under to extortion are a new thing for them.
You’re sittin’ down wonderin’ what it’s all about
If you keep talking nuclear he will put you out
Why don’t you do right like some other men do?
Get out of here, lay off the war talk, too...
Yu Fat?
Isn’t he a Kung Fu movie star?
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