Pompeo Says Kim Jong Un 'Shares The Objectives Of The American People'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Matt Shuham | May 13, 2018 4:04 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, fresh from a trip to North Korea and a meeting with ruler Kim Jong-un, claimed Sunday that Kim shares the United States’ objectives.

“When I said earlier this week that I think Chairman Kim shares the objectives of the American people, I am convinced of that,” Pompeo told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “Now the task is for President Trump and he to meet to validate the process by which this would go forward, to set out those markers so that we can negotiate this outcome.”

Pompeo said the United States would offer “security assurances” to Kim and sanctions relief in exchange for the denuclearization of North Korea.

The secretary of state’s remarks echoed those he made on Friday, shortly after returning from North Korea with three freed American prisoners, and having met with Kim.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pompeo-says-kim-jong-un-shares-the-objectives-of-the-american-people

[matt819]

1. These buffoons are being played

By a brutal, murderous dictator.

[SummerSnow]

3. His history with the Nk's is evil. Kim is playing a game.

[matt819]

4. Kim, father, and grandfather

Have been at this for more than 60 years. Our home grown doofuses have been stumbling around for 18 months. Cleaning up this mess will take decades.

[NastyRiffraff]

13. Trump is desperate for a foreign policy "win"

Kim is licking his chops, anticipating getting whatever the hell he wants from the "dealmaker." Somebody please help us!

[SergeStorms]

25. Trump wants a Nobel Prize more than he wants....

a bucket of KFC extra-crispy fried chicken, with extra biscuits and gravy (the gravy would be his beverage). In his mind that would negate Obama's Nobel Prize, just because he'd have won his more recently. In Trump's fruit fly-sized brain, everything President Obama ever did while in office must be eradicated. I sincerely believe that's his only real purpose for being "president".

[3catwoman3]

28. I agree with you. He wants to obliterate...

...anything and everything accomplished by President Obama, no matter what harm it causes. Toss in his insatiable need to self-aggrandize, and what a mess.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. What's all this sudden concern for the welfare of N Korea and China?

They don't give a cluck about the United States, but they're ready to act in the best interests of other countries.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Maybe cash flow explains it

Link to tweet

Trumps concern for Chinese jobs for phones that the DoD banned & US intelligence says can be intercepted/turned into listening devices indicates there is money changing hands here we have yet to uncover.

[NCjack]

26. Trump plans to deliver the North Koreans into American capitalists servitude.

[yonder]

5. If execution by aircraft cannon fire is the solution

for one whom falls out of favor with his leader is a United States "objective" then um, sure.

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. Yeah, we like killing our relatives

With anti-aircraft guns and poison.

[christx30]

23. I was just saying the other day

that I would like to put 100’s of thousands and f people in prison for generations for political reasons. Looks like ol’ In has got that done too.

[gordianot]

7. Yep take to executing relatives with anti-aircraft guns when they piss you off.

When College students vandalize posters beat them into a comma. On second thought there is common ground between American Trumpers and North Korean worshipers of the Kim dynasty.

[Phoenix61]

9. It's just a coincidence that Kim's nuclear

test site is no longer functional.

[7962]

10. Man, they are setting themselves up for SUCH a big failure.

Theres only one true solution; no nukes & totally free inspections from outside. And I see no way NK agrees to that. Anything less and trump gets played just like every administration before has. NOTHING from us first

[jmowreader]

11. I did not previously know...

that the United States' objective in Korea is to reunite the peninsula under a communist government. That IS the objective of North Korea, and has been since July 27, 1953 - the date the Korean Armistice was signed.

If Trump causes that to happen, Supermax prison is too good for him, it's too good for his evil family, and it's too good for anyone who has ever worked for Donald Trump.

[rurallib]

12. Wouldn't it have been easier for Pompeo to stand in front

of the State Department with a sign that declares "I am really STUPID!"


Here's to you, Mike Pompeo!

[bitterross]

14. So, Basically, Let's do an Iran-style deal with N. Korea.

So easy to see that the only thing that was wrong with the Iran deal was that Obama's administration did it.

[Mr.Bill]

15. Having ICBMs with nucear warheads fired at us

is an "objective of the American people?"

[Zambero]

16. The American people: Little rocket men & women

The axis of goodness. Many thanks to Mr. Pompeo for pointing out these newfound "common objectives".

[Freethinker65]

17. So how long before the GOP and conservatives do a 180 on NK?

Stunning.

[Nitram]

18. Un shares the objectives of the American people? Right.

More likely Un shares the authoritarian objectives of Trump and his gang of thugs.

[handmade34]

19. sound somewhat familiar?????

"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country."


Damn the Republicans are easily led

[paleotn]

20. Kim isn't going to give up his nukes....

It's simply not going to happen. There are no assurances we can give that would satisfy NK, other than removing all of our military personnel and assets from the most heavily militarized border in the history of the planet. That is not going to happen. So, there is absolutely nothing to be gained by this. By the US anyway. Lots to be gained by NK. Feels like Munich all over again.

[moonseller66]

21. Kissinger and the Peace Talks

There was an old adage during the Paris Peace Talks that Henry was trying to negotiate a settlement with undisclosed items. The gist was that he was going to give up something so the North Vietnamese would agree to a ceasefire or possibly peace. Rumor (among many) was that Nixon, through Henry, was giving Hanoi Rhode Island!

I wonder what the idiot in charge today is giving Kim to make him look like a "noble" prize? California? New York? Free room service at the dwindling Trump Hotels? All the borscht he can eat? Or something worse for America?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

22. Why Russia holds the key to resolving the North Korea crisis

Good article from last fall with historical perspectives

Why Russia holds the key to resolving the North Korea crisis
21 August 2017 By Isabel Hilton
Link: https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2017/08/why-russia-holds-key-resolving-north-korea-crisis

Today, North Korea’s relations with Russia are warmer than those with Beijing and if President Trump is serious in his search for someone to solve his North Korea problem for him, he could do worse than to call his friend Mr Putin. No doubt there would be a price, but perhaps Trump would have less difficulty in appeasing Russia than in making concessions to Kim Jong-un.

In July this year, China and Russia put forward a proposal that both sides should make concessions. North Korea would suspend its nuclear and its missile testing in return for a suspension of South Korea’s annual military exercises with the United States. Buried in the joint statement was the assertion that third parties should not negatively affect the interests of other countries.

Both China and Russia aim to reduce US influence in Asia, an ambition greatly aided to date by Trump’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, conceived as a vehicle of US influence; his treatment of long-standing US allies; and his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris agreement on climate change.

This perspective questions the validity of Trump's bluster and bullshit on his administration's negotiating skills. Maybe Trump did indeed make that call to Putin: "Please, Daddy, help me!"....

[lapfog_1]

24. Well, I HAVE had the impulse to kill a few relatives at the airport

but I rather think I'm the exception and not the rule... plus I never acted on those impulses.

[truthisfreedom]

27. two con artists havin' a coffee klatch.

[Alethia Merritt]

29. Kim may very well share the objectives of about 1/3 of American people.

Bigotry, sexism, greed, selfishness, war-mongering, indifference to the well-being of 90% of his citizens. That does not make him a trustworthy head of state. That just makes him like the current occupant of our White House and he should be despised in like manner.

[MBS]

31. You nailed it. thanks. n/t

[Firestorm49]

30. I don't buy it.

Since when does the leader of a totalitarian communist regime who’s been off his rocker for years, who’s made inflammatory comments on equal or greater par than the alleged leader of the good old U S of A suddenly have a “come to Jesus” moment and become our dear friend. Scrap it all????
Out of nowhere, Kim Jong Un has decided to scrap the whole nuclear, confrontational ball game. It makes no sense whatsoever. Was it his meeting with Chinese leaders that scared the living shit out of him, or was it divine inspiration?
To make things even more absurd, we’re going to send the Buffoon in Chief into a room with a guy who miraculously abandoned in totality, his core principles of dominance and destruction overnight. I can’t imagine anything that stinks more than this proposed meeting, as nothing makes any sense.
We know so little, yet we should be allowed to know so much more. Personally, the whole sordid affair is freightening.