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struggle4progress

(118,285 posts) Sun Jun 17, 2018, 12:19 PM Jun 2018

Diplomat faces daunting task with North Korea

BY REBECCA KHEEL - 06/17/18 06:00 AM EDT

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is confronting a daunting task in putting meat on the bones of President Trump’s agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ...

... the statement included no specifics on how denuclearization will be achieved, identifying neither verification methods nor a timeline ...

During his travels, Pompeo labored to defend the bare-bones Trump-Kim statement, saying the United States has not abandoned its demand for complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization despite the words “verifiable” and “irreversible” not appearing in the document ...

“With a State Department that has not really been properly staffed yet, how can the bureaucracy pursue extremely complicated, drawn-out negotiations,” Daly said on a conference call. “We are now faced with this very acute problem of staffing and whether in fact we have the horses in the functioning bureaucracy that will allow this to go forward if in fact Kim Jong Un is really interested in a gradual negotiation of denuclearization” ...

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/392523-trumps-trusted-diplomat-faces-daunting-task-with-north-korea

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Diplomat faces daunting task with North Korea (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2018 OP

Good luck mr Pompeo! quartz007 Jun 2018 #1

Cheerleading the trump admin again, I see. Squinch Jun 2018 #3

Sarcasm was so obvious..I guess quartz007 Jun 2018 #4

Here's a free tip Mike: He's NOT interested. Not at all. Volaris Jun 2018 #2

quartz007

(1,216 posts)

1. Good luck mr Pompeo!

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 12:24 PM

Jun 2018

and I will not hold my breath.

Squinch

(50,949 posts)

3. Cheerleading the trump admin again, I see.

Reply to quartz007 (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 08:22 PM

Jun 2018

quartz007

(1,216 posts)

4. Sarcasm was so obvious..I guess

Reply to Squinch (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 11:09 PM

Jun 2018

I will put the sarcasm tag next time for your benefit.

Volaris

(10,271 posts)

2. Here's a free tip Mike: He's NOT interested. Not at all.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 12:24 PM

Jun 2018

Here's another Free Tip:
Turns out Government is actually pretty fucking useful for some things, innit? Too bad you dumb fuckers didn't realize that until you needed one of Those Things, AFTER you had already taken a wrecking ball to it.

I want peace on the peninsula as much as anybody. But good god I hope this blows up in your faces.

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