Posted on 05/11/2018 1:04:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The United States is willing to help North Korea with its economy if the North gets rid of its nuclear weapons, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday. Pompeo held a joint news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha the day after he returned from Pyongyang with three American detainees released by North Korea.
Pompeo said the goal of talks with North Korea is complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. He also said he had "good" and "substantive" conversations with leader Kim Jong Un during his visit.
Kang said there must be "airtight" coordination between South Korea and the U.S. ahead of President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with Kim.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump said he will be meeting with Kim on June 12, tweeting "we will both try to make it a very special moment for world peace!" The tweet came hours after Mr. Trump led a dramatic overnight welcome ceremony for the three Americans released by North Korea -- Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, and Tony Kim. After greeting them privately on board a government plane, the president and first lady escorted them in front of cameras....
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Samsung, Hyundai and Daewoo should be funding this proposal. They all have multi-billion dollar assets in and around Seoul.
This is the carrot. His country is bankrupt.
Samsung, Hyundai and Daewoo should be funding this proposal. They all have multi-billion dollar assets in and around Seoul.
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I was thinking basically the same thing. I think we can bet that DJT will prefer and promote private enterprise over big government spending when it comes to NK.
North Korea can’t celebrate , the Young Un has Banned Drinking and Dancing
Fine by me...
Trust but verify and bring those poor people into the same century their relatives enjoy in the South...
It is ok if the help is advisory but sorry if it is monetary that funding has to come from wealthy first world nations Japan and South Korea. We have done all the heavy lifting defending them extending our nuclear umbrella and intelligence gathering and negotiating. They can pull their weight by funding a potential peace plan.
I agree as long as they start dismantling before we provide any assistance.
A true win for the peoples of Korea will be when they are free to once again walk back and forth between the North and the South.
We did the same thing with the Ukraine after the old Soviet Union collapsed. We basically bought their weapons and paid to have the silos and other infrastructure destroyed. it is the only way to make sure we knew exactly where they ended up
I understand Nork has many rare earth mineral resources, a market currently dominated by Chinese sources. If we can help them develop such and gain access to them it would be to our benefit. And it may well be easier to develop them there at this time than to develop our own potential resources over the greenie resistance. Certainly let the Sorks pay for a lot, but if we can make money and start to reverse 60 years of Nork propaganda about us along the way we should.
Denuclearization would be no success. They were denuclearized before.
Hopefully, the media is pushing this “denuclearization is wonderful” narrative and not the administration.
NK has to change a lot.
Just re-unify North and South. Plenty of cheap labor for the big SK companies
How about South Korea helps.
Maybe they can open a few factories in the North
We have an astute businessman and adult in charge now. Whatever we “give” them we’ll get a pile more in return.
They better not send them a dime of my taxes.
This worries me. WE helped North Korea before in exchange for promises of ending the nuke program.
COMMUNISTS DO NOT KEEP PROMISES. EVER.
The only way to stop a Communist from violating an agreement is to violate it first.
There will be legit money to be made in getting NK back on their feet.
Agriculture is a good place to start, for example.
This would be good - especially when a businessman implements such a policy. The “help” would be in the form of encouraging our companies to open up factories there, which would naturally increase their profits.
Oh, and when the NK economy starts to grow...then Pompeo will go to Cuba and Venezuela and say, “Hey, guys, tired of that Communism $hit yet? You want to start prospering like NK? Fine, we can offer you a deal....”
Trump can finish doing what Reagan and Casey started: Putting Communism on the trash heap of History. Of course, the hardest nut to crack in that area will be American universities...but that’s a whole other thread.
“I understand Nork has many rare earth mineral resources, a market currently dominated by Chinese sources. “
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True. But the Japanese just found some incredible supplies on the sea bed, and its good for several hundred years at current rates of usage. China isn’t going to be dominating that market for very long.
Well, we usually have to occupy a country for thirty years to give aid...maybe we should try something different.
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