10-05-2019, 01:49 PM
** 05-Oct-2019 World View: North Korea cancels nuclear talks with US
It hasn't been in the news, but there have been ongoing meaningless
low-level nuclear negotiations between the US and North Korea. This
last week, they were being held in Stockholm, Sweden.
On Saturday, the North Korean negotiator Kim Myong Gil announced that
North Korea was breaking off the discussions:
He also accused the US of coming "empty-handed" to the negotiations.
As I've been writing for two years, North Korea has absolutely no
intention of ending its development of nuclear weapons and long-range
ballistic missiles. However, North Korea has suspended testing during
the past two years as part of its "charm offensive" to convince Donald
Trump to reduce or end the sanctions.
In 2007, North Korea promised to end nuclear missile development if
President Bush removed the sanctions. President Bush did so, but then
North Korea immediately resumed the nuclear development and testing,
thoroughly humiliating the US and the West.
Both North Korea (with respect to nuclear missile development) and
China (with respect to theft of intellection property) have been using
every trick, subterfuge, deceit and lie possible to trick President
Trump into agreeing to remove sanctions without making any
concessions. So far, Trump has refused to fall for those lies again.
So when Kim Myong Gil on Saturday accused the US of coming
"empty-handed" to the negotiations, he undoubtedly meant that the US
was refusing to agree to reduce or remove sanctions.
Several days ago, North Korea tested what it called a new type
of submarine-launched ballistic missile, presumably violating
their agreement with Trump.
Unless the North Koreans reverse course and resume the meaningless
negotiations with the US, the next step will probably be for North
Korea to test a nuclear weapon again. That should generate quite a
bit of excitement.
---- Sources:
-- Top N.K. nuclear envoy says working-level talks with U.S. break
down
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191006000200325
(Yonhap, 5-Oct-2019)
-- North Korea and US nuclear talks break down in less than a day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49947836
(BBC, 5-Oct-2019)
-- North Korea breaks off nuclear talks with US
https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-breaks...a-50712028
(DeutscheWelle, 5-Oct-2019)
---- Related Article:
** 17-Nov-18 World View -- North Korea 'Charm Offensive' appears to have run its course
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e181117
It hasn't been in the news, but there have been ongoing meaningless
low-level nuclear negotiations between the US and North Korea. This
last week, they were being held in Stockholm, Sweden.
On Saturday, the North Korean negotiator Kim Myong Gil announced that
North Korea was breaking off the discussions:
Quote: "The negotiations have not fulfilled our expectations
and finally broke off."
He also accused the US of coming "empty-handed" to the negotiations.
As I've been writing for two years, North Korea has absolutely no
intention of ending its development of nuclear weapons and long-range
ballistic missiles. However, North Korea has suspended testing during
the past two years as part of its "charm offensive" to convince Donald
Trump to reduce or end the sanctions.
In 2007, North Korea promised to end nuclear missile development if
President Bush removed the sanctions. President Bush did so, but then
North Korea immediately resumed the nuclear development and testing,
thoroughly humiliating the US and the West.
Both North Korea (with respect to nuclear missile development) and
China (with respect to theft of intellection property) have been using
every trick, subterfuge, deceit and lie possible to trick President
Trump into agreeing to remove sanctions without making any
concessions. So far, Trump has refused to fall for those lies again.
So when Kim Myong Gil on Saturday accused the US of coming
"empty-handed" to the negotiations, he undoubtedly meant that the US
was refusing to agree to reduce or remove sanctions.
Several days ago, North Korea tested what it called a new type
of submarine-launched ballistic missile, presumably violating
their agreement with Trump.
Unless the North Koreans reverse course and resume the meaningless
negotiations with the US, the next step will probably be for North
Korea to test a nuclear weapon again. That should generate quite a
bit of excitement.
---- Sources:
-- Top N.K. nuclear envoy says working-level talks with U.S. break
down
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191006000200325
(Yonhap, 5-Oct-2019)
-- North Korea and US nuclear talks break down in less than a day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49947836
(BBC, 5-Oct-2019)
-- North Korea breaks off nuclear talks with US
https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-breaks...a-50712028
(DeutscheWelle, 5-Oct-2019)
---- Related Article:
** 17-Nov-18 World View -- North Korea 'Charm Offensive' appears to have run its course
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e181117