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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Yep. And money in this case (coming from the U.S. and Trump—as he is a fantastic negotiator) also means control. We will definitely have a solid controlling interest in North Korea if this pans out with Kim.
I like your thinking :D
Funny, but isn’t that what Obama did for Iran?
Clinton/Carter gave them a “commercial nuclear power” program to stop their military nuke program.
Samsung, Hyundai and Daewoo should be funding this proposal. They all have multi-billion dollar assets in and around Seoul.
N. Korea could become the next low cost manufacturing economy. China, Vietnam, are no longer sources of cheap labor.
I thought Madeline Albright took care of that yrs. ago. /s
The Mouse That Roared - The Sequel
The burden is going to fall on their shoulders.
This is nuts!
We gave a bunch of the Shah’s money back to the Iranian terrorist Mullahs, and they instantly destabilized the entire Middle East.
Now, Trump wants to give money to the Kim family, like the previous three presidents did?
The Kim family has been enslaving, starving, murdering, and terrorizing the North Korean population for seven decades.
We should be calling for the arrest of Boy Kim, and confiscate all his assets.
That find is 100 km from their nearest (tiny) island, 1000km from mainland Japan and is on the ocean floor a couple km beneath the surface. That find. is NOT going to be easy or cheap to collect! Even starting from the low Nork level of infrastructure that's got to be cheaper to exploit. And there would be plenty of relatively cheap (even if we provide food and paid 5x Kim's wages) unskilled labor available.
Gotta open the country up with a sense of stability first - then there will be plenty of businesses wanting to get the initial footholds.....
I can sense DOD and quite the food delivery.
Yep - help feed them, give them avenues to at least basic medical care and negotiate for businesses to invest and in a decade they won’t recognize their country.....hope Kim follows through.
Yea, me as well. Kim can stay in charge but our DOD must be there to take care of the transition.
He can call it a mutual understanding of power and take credit for everything.
That is part of what Trump does in a deal. He enlarges the negotiating board in order to include enough of what his trading partner wants (and he can get in return) to get a it done.
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