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WASHINGTON (AP) The United States aspires to have North Korea as a close partner and not an enemy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, noting that the U.S. has often in history become good friends with former adversaries.
Pompeo said he had told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un of that hope during his brief visit to Pyongyang earlier this week, during which he finalized details of the June 12 summit between Kim and President Donald Trump and secured the release of three Americans imprisoned in the country.
He said his talks with Kim on Wednesday had been warm, ?constructive and good and that he made clear that if North Korea gets rid of its nuclear weapons in a permanent and verifiable way, the U.S. is willing to help the impoverished nation boost its economy and living stands to levels like those in prosperous South Korea.
We had good conversations about the histories of our two nations, the challenges that we have had between us, Pompeo told reporters at a news conference Friday with South Koreas visiting foreign minister, Kang Kyung-wha. We talked about the fact that America has often in history had adversaries who we are now close partners with and our hope that we could achieve the same with respect to North Korea.
https://apnews.com/3fa7473affb6426cb40ba39a7c6492f6
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)administration at all.
sunRISEnow
(217 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)yah, what's that about?
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)They have no economy.
http://www.aei.org/publication/how-north-korea-became-the-worlds-worst-economy/
Nukes are their only asset and they arent going to cash them in.
All success to ya, Donnie.
Liberalhammer
(576 posts)Corporations.
They have that.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Two peas in a pod.
Don the Con wishes he had Kim's control over the people.
still_one
(92,190 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,317 posts)and yet Trump's regime is happy to talk nice about Kim and hope to be best buddies, while he rolls back the rapprochement with Cuba. Cuba is, for some reason, a permanent enemy, despite not having done anything since the missile crisis (and that was after the USA tried to overthrow Castro). Maybe the Cubans just aren't authoritarian enough for Trump to bond with.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Howd that approach work out for Khadafy in Libya?
Pompous can say what he wants, but this is a joint DPRK-Sino-Russian gambit anyway.
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)Not only has Kim Jong Un been cruel to the people of his country, he's also been that way towards his own relatives! In addition to that, not that long ago he'd been firing test missiles towards our borders. Now all of a sudden this guy wants to make nice and become buddy-buddy with us? And it has nothing to do with Trump saying our stuff is bigger...that's just cheap talk. Absolutely makes no sense at all. Something else has to be at play here, and the main one that's going to benefit is North Korea and Kim Jong Un. So, again, why the sudden change of heart on North Korea's part?
spanone
(135,833 posts)he's a devout dictator