Posted on 06/04/2018 11:12:42 AM PDT by mandaladon
The Senate’s top Democrats insisted in a letter to President Trump on Monday that any deal with North Korea must completely dismantle Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs permanently — and that the White House must loop Congress in on its plans before negotiations begin.
The minority leader and several ranking Democrats issued a list of conditions in anticipation of the expected June 12 summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un, pressing the president to maintain a tough and unsparing stance with the North Korean leader and with his ally China to ensure that the talks achieve the goal of a “full, complete and verifiable denuclearization of North Korea” — and nothing less.
“Any deal that explicitly or implicitly gives North Korea sanctions relief for anything other than the verifiable performance of its obligations to dismantle its nuclear and missile arsenal is a bad deal,” the Democratic senators wrote.
Congressional Democrats have given their cautious blessing to the talks, while at the same time expressing deep concerns that Trump may be too keen on making a deal with North Korea to ensure that it achieves the results the United States wants.
“We want to make sure the president’s desire for a deal with North Korea doesn’t saddle the United States, [South] Korea and Japan with a bad deal,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Monday. “The president needs to be willing to walk away from the table if there isn’t a deal to be had.”
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Snowflakes #resist peace in Korea.
What line?
Let’s give NK some more nuclear reactors and free oil? That line?
You Dems can have a seat on the bus but on the back of the bus.
Hey Dems, we won.
They want to claim credit. Trump is going to be a tough negotiator, so the Dems want to claim that they were responsible for the President’s negotiating stance. Yes, the Democrats believe that the general public is that gullible.
On the Iran deal, the Democrats caved.
Now they’re advising to be tough with the Norks. LOL! You can make this up.
On Clinton and Obama’s buttering up to Pyongyang, they remained silent.
Now they talk.
The Constitution clearly states that foreign relations are to be handled by the minority party in the Senate.
Of course the Senate does ratify treaties with foreign nations (and Indian tribes), but when the Senate was given that power, the Senate represented the States’ governments which did have an interest in foreign treaties. Now, the States don’t really have representation in the federal government.
Just when you think the DemonRatz can’t sink any lower you realize you’ve underestimated them.
Rats trying to get in on President Trump’s successes.
They want the President to perform an old Toto song?
It was at least far better than their Africa pablum.....
If a peace treaty is signed by N and S Korea, the senate can go pound sand as long as the US is not a party.
Hey rats, you lost. Please get on board or get out of the way.
Hilarious. Democrats are to foreign policy what Bonnie and Clyde were to banking.
The nerve. How much cash has soros given them to help appease NK during previous presidents?
They are trying to spike the deal.
They never set any conditions on Obama’s negotiating before the deal.
Traders.
Iran anyone? These clowns line up to be hypocritical.
They want to give away Trump's plans before he gets to play them out.
The Democrats just want to set Trump up to fail by leaking what he says in advance.
-PJ
I am old enough to remember that the Korean War wasn’t really a war at all, but rather a “police action”. But you’re right, any peace treaty should be between N & S Korea.
tough kinda like nobama was to his brothers in noran? please give me a break duffus demos?
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