Posted on 08/11/2018 1:50:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
North Korea is renewing its harsh criticism of the United States for failing to live up to the spirit of the Singapore summit, but Pyongyang is sparing President Trump as it blames "some high-level officials" within the administration.
The foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday that the U.S. should not expect North Korea to follow through on promises to denuclearize as long as Washington adheres to "old scenarios" that have failed in the past.
The comments come less than two months after Trump met in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after which the president proclaimed a historic breakthrough in relations.
Since then, Pyongyang had taken "such practical denuclearization steps" as discontinuing nuclear and ballistic missile tests as well as "broadminded measures" such as returning the remains of Korean War dead, North Korean foreign ministry said.
Even so, the U.S. has responded, "by inciting international sanctions and pressure," the statement, carried by the official KCNA news agency, said.
"As long as the U.S. denies even the basic decorum for its dialogue partner and clings to the outdated acting script which the previous administrations have all tried and failed, one cannot expect any progress in the implementation of the [North Korea]-US joint statement including the denuclearization," the ministry said.
It blamed "some high-level officials within the U.S. administration," who were "going against the intention of President Trump."
While the statement did not mention anyone besides the president by name, it is likely at least partially a reference to national security adviser John Bolton, a long-time North Korea hawk.
In an interview Tuesday on Fox News, Bolton said that the U.S. had held up its end of the Singapore declaration, while North Korea had failed to take "the steps we feel are necessary to denuclearization."
"The idea that we're going to relax the sanctions just on North Korea's say-so, I think, is something that just isn't under consideration," he said. "We're going to continue to apply maximum pressure to North Korea until they denuclearize, just as we are to Iran."
Bolton's remarks come amid growing evidence that Pyongyang is moving ahead on its ballistic missile program even as it seeks broader engagement with the U.S.
In the weeks after the Singapore summit — after which the president announced that North Korea no longer posed "a nuclear threat" – Pyongyang reportedly set about an expansion of a ballistic missile production facility and then began building new liquid-fuel ICBMs.
Why does this article come across as Deep State Bull $hit?
Answer: Because it’s NPR and they hate President Trump
Take this article with more than a grain of salt.
You are in denial.
It’s a like a dance, with choreographed moves.
If nobody was saying anything, then I would be worried.
Kabuki theatre. No one since Reagan even tried, other than giving them nuclear reactors and food.
Confirmation of the promiss to denuclearize. The rest is theater and leftist negative speculation. All is proceeding in the right direction.
I will probably live to see Korea re-united as a representative democracy and my health isn’t exactly tip-top. With all those minerals and 25 million more workers they’ll really be an electronics and industrial powerhouse.
South Korea could teach the North a lot. South Korea is no paradigm of pluperfect puritanism, but it doesn’t need to be that in order to prosper. Socialists are sometimes so pure that they can’t do a single blessed thing.
Even Chiapet is calling out the regressives. Besides the Euro trash barely holding onto power, who do the regressives have as allies. Maduro is ducking drones. Castro is busy mugging tourists. Oh well. There is always Greece.
The American Left and the Leftist leader of South Korea have instructed the dictator in North Korea to try to create, and exploit where possible, divisions within the Trump administration.
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