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North Korea Is Willing to Discuss Giving Up Nuclear Weapons, South Says
NYT ^ | 6 Mar 2018 | CHOE SANG-HUN

Posted on 03/06/2018 6:26:27 AM PST by mandaladon

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has told South Korean envoys that his country is willing to begin negotiations with the United States on abandoning its nuclear weapons and that it would suspend all nuclear and missile tests while it is engaged in such talks, South Korean officials said on Tuesday.

During the envoys’ two-day visit to Pyongyang, the North’s capital, which ended on Tuesday, the two Koreas also agreed to hold a summit meeting between Mr. Kim and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea on the countries’ border in late April, Mr. Moon’s office said in a statement.

“The North Korean side clearly stated its willingness to denuclearize,” the statement said. “It made it clear that it would have no reason to keep nuclear weapons if the military threat to the North was eliminated and its security guaranteed.”

If the statement is corroborated by North Korea, it would be the first time Mr. Kim has indicated that his government is willing to discuss giving up nuclear weapons in return for security guarantees from the United States. Until now, North Korea has said its nuclear weapons were not for bargaining away.

“The North expressed its willingness to hold a heartfelt dialogue with the United States on the issues of denuclearization and normalizing relations with the United States,” the statement said. “It made it clear that while dialogue is continuing, it will not attempt any strategic provocations, such as nuclear and ballistic missile tests.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nknukes; nksktalks; northkorea; sanctions; trump; trumprussia; winning
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To: mandaladon

What?!?! They are willing to DISCUSS it.

Answer’s ‘NO’, but let’s talk it through.


61 posted on 03/06/2018 8:52:40 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: mandaladon

So are the North and South now true “Seoul mates”? Ha-ha-ha!!!


62 posted on 03/06/2018 9:03:10 AM PST by 2harddrive
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Your "take" on this, please...

Thanks!

63 posted on 03/06/2018 9:04:50 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; "0bama": Allah's stooge; "Moderate Muslims": Allah's useful idiots.)
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To: mandaladon

We have no clarity about the “incident” at a nuclear facility in NK where many people died (a cave in). I believe it was reported that a couple of hundred people died(?). After this things have gone rather quiet testing wise.

I’m wondering if key people died and NK has zero capability right now anyway. If they can convince people they do then they could to use it as a bargaining chip. That they’re even making this offer makes me suspicious about their current capability, it’s a radical shift in behavior.


64 posted on 03/06/2018 9:09:22 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: mandaladon

Hopefully the President remembers that prior presidents have ‘been there done that’ with butterballs daddy and grandpa. The US always caved, sent them food, billions of dollars that always came back as more weapons to threaten till the next big coerced payout.


65 posted on 03/06/2018 9:09:24 AM PST by redcatcherb412 (Emerged intact.)
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To: richardtavor

They must be close to finalizing their delivery system.

Pretending to sit at the table will buy them as much time as possible. This could drag on for years—all the while, they will be making incremental changes to their tech.

This will not end well. I give these talks about a 90% chance of failure.


66 posted on 03/06/2018 9:19:12 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: mandaladon

He will trade his nukes for U.S. supplied “sharks with friggin lasers on their heads”......and one Trillion dollars in unmarked bills.


67 posted on 03/06/2018 9:20:56 AM PST by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: redcatcherb412
Trump has been an acute observer of the world scene, and was there watching as his predecessors made fools of themselves. I doubt he will be so easily sucked in.

NK has never faced an adversary like Trump. They hardly know what to do about him. The possibility exists that he can do something new just because of who he is— like when to the horrors of the western world he pulled out of the Paris Scam as promised; or when he didnt hesitate to rain missiles on a Syrian airbase after Assad used some chemical weapons: Or when he promised to build a wall, and has begun to build it despite all the naysayers in the establishment; or when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, to the shock and dismay of the entire world, but with no negative consequences.

Kim may just realize that unlike his feckless predecessors, Trump is not bluffing.

68 posted on 03/06/2018 9:23:03 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: mandaladon

Within days of Trump threatening Red China with tariffs!

Can’t people see what is happening ? Our President is the most masterful statesman this world has ever known- he’s so far ahead of everyone else we have had as president in the last century it is scary


69 posted on 03/06/2018 9:35:12 AM PST by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President)
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To: redcatcherb412

You are underestimating president Trump?


70 posted on 03/06/2018 9:36:58 AM PST by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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To: Mariner

Trump is no Chamberlain!


71 posted on 03/06/2018 9:39:58 AM PST by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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To: mandaladon; ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

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72 posted on 03/06/2018 9:43:46 AM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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To: mandaladon

Not good enough.

End the nuclear quest and end the belligerence toward the south and quit demanding “reunification or nothing” and THEN maybe we can talk. Talk is cheap. Act first and then, having changed what can be expected, talks might have a chance.


73 posted on 03/06/2018 9:53:22 AM PST by Wuli (qu)
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To: mandaladon

Of course they are “willing to discuss”, nuclear blackmail has been half of their entire economy for generation. If I was the negotiator I would listen kindly to their offer for “financial aid”. I would then say if you had spent the last 10 Billion dollars we gave you to abandon nuclear weapons on industry other than Nuclear development you would not now need financial aid.

This is my counter offer. Surrender and allow us to remove all Nuclear technology from your nation or we will remove them with nuclear weapons. You have one week.

I would suggest you evacuate all your women and children to China immediately.

Good bye


74 posted on 03/06/2018 9:55:04 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Obadiah
Trust, but verify.

In this case.

Verify BEFORE Trust.

75 posted on 03/06/2018 10:12:16 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Raycpa
“I’m sure Obama would be credited.”

I honestly don't know anything positive I would credit Obama for.

76 posted on 03/06/2018 10:34:12 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: mandaladon

They just want their regular game back - paid to attend unending talks, while they continue to secretly advance their program.


77 posted on 03/06/2018 10:36:03 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: nuke_road_warrior
Jimmy Carter's freelance diplomacy maneuvered Clinton into a position where he felt he had to make a deal with NK.

The latest World Almanac has a list rating the Presidents. Obama isn't in the top ten but close. Carter is ranked much too high--in the bottom half but several places ahead of GWB (who is by far the lowest-rated of any President who was successful in getting re-elected). Based on a poll of academics, I believe.

78 posted on 03/06/2018 10:47:30 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: mandaladon
Have we learned NOTHING from history? This is TOTAL BS. North Korea is playing the West all over again.

Kim Jun Un is nothing but a rabid Stalinist dictator who will never give up his nukes or power.

You can't believe a word this utterly evil man and his minions say.

79 posted on 03/06/2018 10:54:08 AM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: antidemoncrat
Can you blame them for trying? After all, the Kim family were able to con Klintoon, Shrub and Oboogaloo. Their 'protection racket' has worked so well for almost a quarter century, so why not try it once again?


80 posted on 03/06/2018 11:10:15 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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