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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Mon Dec 31, 2018, 09:42 PM Dec 2018

Kim Jong Un: North Korea may 'seek a new path' if US doesn't negotiate

Source: The Hill

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned the U.S. against continuing to sanction North Korea in his New Year's speech Tuesday.

Kim said he would have to seek a "new path" if the U.S. moves forward with sanctions and pressure, and demanded that the U.S. not hold further joint military exercises with South Korea, according to media reports.

He added that he's prepared for more denuclearization talks with the U.S. and said he's willing to meet with President Trump, according to media reports.

But Kim said North Korea will need to take a different path if the U.S. “continues to break its promises and misjudges our patience by unilaterally demanding certain things and pushes ahead with sanctions and pressure," according to the Associated Press.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/423379-kim-jong-un-warns-us-we-may-seek-a-new-path-if-demands-not-met

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Kim Jong Un: North Korea may 'seek a new path' if US doesn't negotiate (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Dec 2018 OP

Orangey McLittledick is never going to get his Nobel Peace Prize at this rate. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2018 #1

But Dotard says Rocketman is "very honorable". keithbvadu2 Dec 2018 #2

Love is cruel dalton99a Dec 2018 #3

But drumpf said Kim shook his hand and NK disarmed Takket Jan 2019 #4

Prep already underway here - akraven Jan 2019 #5

Countries will start to force return of NK overseas workers in 2019 soryang Jan 2019 #6

Kim and Trump Back at Square 1: If U.S. Keeps Sanctions, North Will Keep Nuclear Program Eugene Jan 2019 #7

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,781 posts)

1. Orangey McLittledick is never going to get his Nobel Peace Prize at this rate.

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Mon Dec 31, 2018, 09:49 PM

Dec 2018

keithbvadu2

(36,852 posts)

2. But Dotard says Rocketman is "very honorable".

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Mon Dec 31, 2018, 10:21 PM

Dec 2018

But Dotard says Rocketman is "very honorable".

dalton99a

(81,543 posts)

3. Love is cruel

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Mon Dec 31, 2018, 11:22 PM

Dec 2018

Takket

(21,593 posts)

4. But drumpf said Kim shook his hand and NK disarmed

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:09 AM

Jan 2019

And we are all safe now.... right?!?

akraven

(1,975 posts)

5. Prep already underway here -

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 09:23 AM

Jan 2019

we're a prime target. Every base/post is beefing up, and the CG is on full watch.

Yep. I'm scared. Our little cabin is wood and wouldn't last, and we both remember the "duck and cover" drills from the 60's. I just hope sTrump and Kim leave my kitties okay.

soryang

(3,299 posts)

6. Countries will start to force return of NK overseas workers in 2019

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Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:54 PM

Jan 2019

...this will further reduce North Koreas foreign exchange account to a level that is not palatable to the leadership. So it's a return to regime change politics by the US, and self reliance ideology by the North. The message to the South as the mediator between the US and the North was very soft and hopeful.

Te Yong Ho, the well known North Korean diplomatic defector says that some relief from sanctions in the form of reopening Kumgansang resort and Kaeseong Industrial Zone is a major objective. The current sanctions regime blocks this kind of economic cooperation between North and South Korea.

Eugene

(61,919 posts)

7. Kim and Trump Back at Square 1: If U.S. Keeps Sanctions, North Will Keep Nuclear Program

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Wed Jan 2, 2019, 11:47 AM

Jan 2019

Source: New York Times

Kim and Trump Back at Square 1: If U.S. Keeps Sanctions, North Will Keep Nuclear Program

By David E. Sanger
Jan. 1, 2019

Nearly two years into his presidency and more than six months after his historic summit meeting with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, President Trump finds himself essentially back where he was at the beginning in achieving the ambitious goal of getting Mr. Kim to relinquish his nuclear arsenal.

That was the essential message of Mr. Kim’s annual New Year’s televised speech, where he reiterated that international sanctions must be lifted before North Korea will give up a single weapon, dismantle a single missile site or stop producing nuclear material.

The list of recent North Korean demands was a clear indicator of how the summit meeting in Singapore last June altered the optics of the relationship more than the reality. Those demands were very familiar from past confrontations: that all joint military training between the United States and South Korea be stopped, that American nuclear and military capability within easy reach of the North be withdrawn, and that a peace treaty ending the Korean War be completed.

“It’s fair to say that not much has changed, although we now have more clarity regarding North Korea’s bottom line,’’ Evans J.R. Revere, a veteran American diplomat and former president of the Korea Society, wrote in an email.

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