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Related: About this forumNorth Korea expands threat to cancel Trump-Kim summit, saying it won't be pushed to abandon its nuke
Source: Washington Post
North Korea expands threat to cancel Trump-Kim summit, saying it wont be pushed to abandon its nukes
By Anna Fifield May 16 at 12:10 AM
SEOUL North Korea is rapidly moving the goal posts for next months summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump, saying the United States must stop insisting it unilaterally abandon its nuclear program and stop talking about a Libya-style solution to the standoff.
The latest warning, delivered by former North Korean nuclear negotiator Kim Gye Gwan on Wednesday, fits Pyongyangs well-established pattern of raising the stakes in negotiations by threatening to walk out if it doesnt get its way.
This comes just hours after the North Korean regime cast doubt on the planned summit by protesting joint air force drills taking place in South Korea, saying they were ruining the diplomatic mood.
If the Trump administration approaches the summit with sincerity for improved relations, it will receive a deserved response from us, Kim Gye Gwan, now vice foreign minister, said in a statement carried by the Norths official Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday.
However, if the U.S. is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-U.S. summit, he said, using the abbreviation for North Koreas official name. He also questioned the sequencing of denuclearization first, compensation second.
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By Anna Fifield May 16 at 12:10 AM
SEOUL North Korea is rapidly moving the goal posts for next months summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump, saying the United States must stop insisting it unilaterally abandon its nuclear program and stop talking about a Libya-style solution to the standoff.
The latest warning, delivered by former North Korean nuclear negotiator Kim Gye Gwan on Wednesday, fits Pyongyangs well-established pattern of raising the stakes in negotiations by threatening to walk out if it doesnt get its way.
This comes just hours after the North Korean regime cast doubt on the planned summit by protesting joint air force drills taking place in South Korea, saying they were ruining the diplomatic mood.
If the Trump administration approaches the summit with sincerity for improved relations, it will receive a deserved response from us, Kim Gye Gwan, now vice foreign minister, said in a statement carried by the Norths official Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday.
However, if the U.S. is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-U.S. summit, he said, using the abbreviation for North Koreas official name. He also questioned the sequencing of denuclearization first, compensation second.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-threatens-to-cancel-summit-with-trump-over-military-drills/2018/05/15/04a15a5e-5878-11e8-8b92-45fdd7aaef3c_story.html
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North Korea expands threat to cancel Trump-Kim summit, saying it won't be pushed to abandon its nuke (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2018
OP
I tried, but they wouldn't listen. Now I'm turning it over to Alex Jones, Sean Hannity
RKP5637
May 2018
#5
PJMcK
(22,034 posts)1. There goes Trump's Nobel Prize (n/t)
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)2. Nobody knew how hard negotiating with N. Korea is nt
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)3. I'm shocked.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)4. Kim Jong Un executes the rope a dope maneuver.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)5. I tried, but they wouldn't listen. Now I'm turning it over to Alex Jones, Sean Hannity
and John Bolton.
Sincerely, Donald J. Dump.
Doodley
(9,088 posts)6. This is what happens when you conduct diplomacy as if it is a reality TV show.
pwb
(11,261 posts)7. How does a government become a regime?
I guess it happens when they stand up to the bullies of the world. Every country the bullies don't like are called regimes.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)8. Here is a related article on N.K. it has been a family run dictatorship ince its inception in 1948.
5 reasons North Korea is a 'rogue regime
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/01/06/5-ways-north-korea-rogue-regime/78349910/
soryang
(3,299 posts)9. Let's see how long Trump can get Bolton and Pence to keep their mouths shut
That's what caused the temporary break. Ri Son Gwon, came to Panmunjeom on June 1 with a North Korean delegation to meet working level South Korean negotiators. With respect to this subject he said "small stumps can overturn a large cart."