Trump Administration asks Jimmy Carter to avoid North Korea rapprochement

[tenorly]

The Trump administration has privately asked Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who has served as an envoy between Washington and Pyongyang, not to attempt "rapprochement" that could interfere with ongoing efforts to put pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime, the Financial Times reports.

Senior state department official Brian Hook personally made the request to Carter last weekend at his home in Georgia, the report said.

The request to Carter signaled concern that the former president could complicate U.S. strategy towards Pyongyang. Carter has in the past forced administrations to change its stance, including in 1994 when Bill Clinton was considering launching a military strike against North Korea.

At: https://www.thestreet.com/story/14108048/1/trump-administration-asks-jimmy-carter-to-avoid-north-korea-rapprochement.html
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Of course they did. Cheeto has been binge buying defense stocks, and doesn't want anyone getting in the way of a war - least of someone with a proven track record in diplomacy.

[FarPoint]

1. I'll follow Jimmy.

A real President.

[hlthe2b]

2. Me too. I don't think he'll take kindly to this.

[tenorly]

3. And then there's this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141763180

Can you imagine the shit storm that would have ensued if Hillary had become president and were discovered to be pressuring a foreign country (a major non-NATO ally) to cancel a national distinction for, say, Poppy Bush?

[sarisataka]

4. This is far more important than the NK

story that everyone is putting so much angst into.

President Carter has a proven track record of getting the most unreasonable leaders to see reason and step off the path to war.

[tenorly]

7. I still remember the disappointment when the Nobel committee passed him up in 1994.

To say nothing of 1979! (though that was before my time)

Republicans laughed; but his talks with North Korea in '94 successfully suspended their nuclear program, as corroborated by the IAEA - until, of course, Dubya started provoking them.

King Jong Il kicked out the inspectors, removed the electronic monitoring devices (all put there as a result of the Carter efforts), and a decade later, here we are.

[sarisataka]

8. Carter has been underrated his whole life

luckily he does not have the ego that requires outside validation. He just does what is the right thing at the right time.

I was in school in '79. Camp David was amazing. It was Carter's drive that pushed the talks to resolution.

[spanone]

5. of course, President Carter would be requesting such terrible things as peace and stuff

we can't have that.

[tenorly]

6. Especially with all the defense stocks Cheeto has been gorging on lately.

The fat oaf wants a war, and he wants it now.