U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sit down for a dinner during the second U.S.-North Korea summit at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam February 27, 2019. Also pictured at right are U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
The Hill: Briefing calms senators' nerves after Trump-Kim summit
Senators emerged from a closed-door briefing Tuesday on President Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un assuaged the administration has a plan going forward, even if it remains unclear whether the plan will be successful.
“I see what the strategy is,” said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who called the briefing “great.” “The odds of success on the strategy are not high, but I think everybody’s realistic about that.”
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was briefed by special envoy Stephen Biegun days after Trump walked away from his summit with Kim in Hanoi, Vietnam, without a deal on denuclearization.
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Update #1: Trump's North Korea diplomat wins Democratic support over briefing (Washington Examiner)
Update #2: US lawmakers back tough stance on North Korea after Trump-Kim summit (Defense News)
WNU Editor: Bottom line. As long as talks continue on the diplomatic level, coupled with South Korea's engagement with North Korea, there is hope.
Even with the Hanoi failures the situation is a dream come true if you were a diplomat dealing with North Korea in the Clinton, Bush II, Obama administration.
ReplyDeleteMuch better now than they ever experienced.
Some incompetent president. Means those later three weren't qualified to sit in that big chair. Which of course they weren't.
North Korea can develop its nuclear program all it wants so long as it's seen negotiating with the U.S. And let's not forget North Korea's open research collaborations with other countries that was reported on December 19, 2018 by NPR. At what point will the world conclude that North Korea has developed its nuclear arms as much as it needs to and that no amount of diplomacy and negotiations will result in North Korea giving up the nation's single greatest defensive and offensive capability, its solution to war with the West and its Korean neighbor to the south? Sorry to say, Trump will fair no better than the presidents that came before him.
ReplyDeleteCorrect Trump might not achieve DPRK nuclear disarmament, in fact that is highly likely as the Ukraine and Libyan experienced weren’t good once they gave them up. On the flip side, the sanctions are left in place. South Korea will know reconciliation via peaceful means isn’t possible and Japan knows it has no choice but to develop long range offensive missiles.
ReplyDeleteAll positive.
Trump did nothing. and Nothing got done. Stop bullshitting and believing in your own madness
ReplyDeleteHope=stage #3 cancer
ReplyDeleteTrump did nothing?
ReplyDeleteUnder Obama and Bush missiles were flying over Japan and South Korea.
Under those two threats of nuclear attack were made against Japan and the USA.
Under those two war time exercises where conducted against both the US and North Korea.
All of that has stopped. Trump made it happen.
I'll take this state of affairs over the past 20 years any day.
Calm down and patience.
ReplyDeleteNorth Korea will continue what it does. I said from the get go it's a dog and pony show. NK will never give up nukes. Maybe there is calm before the storm. If that's even the right phrase. If Korea will be united. Kim would want it under him.
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