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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Thu Feb 28, 2019, 04:25 PM Feb 2019

North Korean Official: Kim Jong Un 'May Have Lost the Will' to Negotiate With Trump

by Tommy Christopher | Feb 28th, 2019, 2:00 pm

Even as the Trump administration tries to put a happy face on the aborted summit with Kim Jong Un, North Korean officials are contradicting Trump’s version of events, and casting doubt on the future of the negotiations.

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But in a rare press conference in Hanoi following the summit, North Korean officials contradicted Trump, and cast doubt on the productivity of current and future talks.

Foreign Minister Ri Yong-Ho told reporters “What we proposed was not the removal of all sanctions, but the partial removal,” and that they “offered a realistic proposal” that would be a “trust-building measure.”

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North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-Hui spoke to reporters after Ri, and said that the U.S. “not accepting our proposal is missing an opportunity that comes once in a thousand years.”

She also said that “I have a feeling that Chairman Kim may have lost the will” to negotiate with Trump.

Full article + video:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/north-korean-official-kim-jong-un-may-have-lost-the-will-to-negotiate-with-trump/

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North Korean Official: Kim Jong Un 'May Have Lost the Will' to Negotiate With Trump (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2019 OP

Well, when you have two fools like Kim and Trumpass rusty fender Feb 2019 #1

Kim realized Trump is a moron and has weakening support in the US to push through any deal. TeamPooka Feb 2019 #2

Breaking up is hard to do! Scotch-Irish Feb 2019 #3

And as usual, Trump's exclusion of press screws him again... Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #4

I rather suspect Igel Feb 2019 #8

"May have lost the will" doesn't seem like wording that... 3catwoman3 Feb 2019 #5

So why wasn't there a meeting of lower level diplomats first to iron out the details? Poiuyt Feb 2019 #6

You'd think. Igel Feb 2019 #9

"I alone can fix it." jcgoldie Feb 2019 #10

Maybe Kim is betting Turbineguy Feb 2019 #7

Breaking up is hard to do. area51 Feb 2019 #11

He'll never lose the will to have his relatives and government officials executed dalton99a Feb 2019 #12

rusty fender

(3,428 posts)

1. Well, when you have two fools like Kim and Trumpass

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2019, 04:31 PM

Feb 2019

negotiating, what could go wrong

TeamPooka

(24,227 posts)

2. Kim realized Trump is a moron and has weakening support in the US to push through any deal.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2019, 04:33 PM

Feb 2019

Scotch-Irish

(464 posts)

3. Breaking up is hard to do!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2019, 04:35 PM

Feb 2019

Wha-a-a-a-a!

Having said that...everyone that knows TrumpEgo loses the will to negotiate with him at some point.

Wounded Bear

(58,660 posts)

4. And as usual, Trump's exclusion of press screws him again...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2019, 04:39 PM

Feb 2019

Once again, he holds 'one-on-one' meetings with an untrustworthy foreigner and now we have to accept Kim's version of events.

Trump refuses to believe that we don't trust him, since he gets his adoration from his syncophants.

Igel

(35,317 posts)

8. I rather suspect

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #4)

Thu Feb 28, 2019, 08:39 PM

Feb 2019

that the press is excluded because he doesn't trust them.

In some cases, you want one on one meetings. Imagine you're trying to work out some sort of political compromise, and everything you say is immediately discussed, dissected, criticized in the media.

For example, next time there's a union strike and contract negotations, lets by all means make sure that people that hate the union is in the room to report every bargaining position--even better if the other side isn't around.

3catwoman3

(23,995 posts)

5. "May have lost the will" doesn't seem like wording that...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2019, 04:48 PM

Feb 2019

...KJU would be pleased about. Makes him sound weak, as opposed to something like "No longer willing to." Problem with translation/nuance? Will there be a dead journalist as a result of this statement?