Not just the White House. And not just privately.
"The Trump White House is reacting skeptically in private to North Korea's announcement of plans to freeze nuclear weapons testing, warning that dictator Kim Jong Un could be setting a trap and vowing not to back off a hard-line stance ahead of a potential leaders' summit. President Donald Trump called Pyongyang's move "progress" and "good news" in a pair of tweets after the news broke Friday evening. Behind the scenes, however, his aides cautioned Saturday that Kim's statement that the North would halt testing and shutter one nuclear facility was more notable for what he left out: a direct pledge to work toward nuclear disarmament."
....We are a long way from conclusion on North Korea, maybe things will work out, and maybe they won’t - only time will tell....But the work I am doing now should have been done a long time ago!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 22, 2018
Posted on this the other day: it IS a shell game and it IS delay, delay, delay to buy time to rebuild their nuclear program. They've destroyed through collapse, radiation or both their existing test sites and many of their nuclear scientists have died as a result.
All the Nork's are doing is attempting to buy time. Period. We've been down this road with the Nork's before under Clinton, GW Bush and Obama. All three of which were suckered into paying the Nork's off with money and food to "stop" their nuclear program and the Nork's never stopped. They just got better at hiding it.
Well, duh !
The Trib’s message is really that they don’t want us to try because they couldn’t stand the thought of another Trump success.
Of course, the entire world is skeptical...and that includes Kim.
Proper position, I expect N. Korea is doing the same. But I really believe this is more of a Communist China chess move. They don’t like American nukes so close to their boards as they are preparing for war in the South China sea. They are all ready claiming more territory by building islands and lying about familiarizing them!
Even if the negotiations result in denuclearization of North Korea is successful, what quid quo pro will China demand?
“Much of the domestic press here in Japan is very, very skeptical about this overture”
apparently our domestic leftist fake stream media has run out of domestic rumors to publish, so now they’re republishing FOREIGN fake stream media rumors ...
This entire hoopla on this thread is simply a replay a the DACA hysteria here on FR.
Everyone forgets, or ignores the fact that we have a tough, skilled President who truly loves America.
The NORKS are a sock puppet of China...
...don’t make it harder than it is.
US policy toward North Korea and Iran should be that for each atomic weapon they test, we launch a nuclear missile of the same tonnage at their capital city.
Beware of pigs from above.
rwood
This is all up to China.If they decide that a nuclear armed NK serves *them* well they’ll remain that way.If not,changes will occur.
Along with every rational human being on Planet Earth.