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Secretary Pompeo Urges North Korea to Follow Vietnam's Example in Overcoming Hostilities With U.S.
Time Magazine ^ | July 8, 2018 | The Associated Press

Posted on 07/08/2018 2:13:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

HANOI, Vietnam — Undeterred by a blistering rebuke of his efforts to forge a denuclearization deal with North Korea, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday appealed for North Korea’s leadership to follow Vietnam’s path in overcoming past hostilities with the United States.

Pompeo called on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to replicate Vietnam’s “miracle” of economic growth by improving ties with the U.S., vowing that America keeps its promises with former foes.

Speaking to members of the U.S.-Vietnamese business community in Hanoi, Pompeo said Vietnam’s experience since the normalization of relations with the U.S. in 1995 should be proof for North Korea that prosperity and partnership with the U.S. is possible after decades of conflict and mistrust. “We know it is a real possibility because we see how Vietnam has traveled this remarkable path,” Pompeo said....

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: korea; northkorea; pompeo; sospompeo; trump; trumpasia; vietnam
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1 posted on 07/08/2018 2:13:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Viet Nam’s example would be for us to leave and for the country to unite. Then a united Korea would partner with other nations.


2 posted on 07/08/2018 2:26:01 PM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

North Korea is trying to save face. We must let them. Much worse if we don’t.


3 posted on 07/08/2018 2:29:37 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Doesn’t sound like a gangster to me.


4 posted on 07/08/2018 2:35:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems a little late for that. Kim has the H-bomb and an ICBM.


5 posted on 07/08/2018 2:39:41 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

No, he doesn’t have a reliable ICBM.


6 posted on 07/08/2018 2:41:39 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Brilliant

But he hasn’t been able to wed the two, which is the hard part. Plus, we have tens of thousands of MIRVd ICBMs, SLBMs and IRBMs, as well as cruise missiles and bombs. For example, one MIRVd SLBM from one of our submarines could totally destroy EVERYTHING in North Korea.


7 posted on 07/08/2018 2:44:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Brilliant

It’s also not certain they have a H-bomb either.


8 posted on 07/08/2018 2:51:52 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Undeterred by a blistering rebuke of his efforts”

there was no “blistering rebuke”, just a statement by some anonymous Nork “official” ...


9 posted on 07/08/2018 3:00:37 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: dynoman
It’s also not certain they have a H-bomb either.

If a gun is pointed towards me and the person on the trigger says he is going to kill me, I always assume it's loaded. America has such tolerance. North Korea, China and Iran should have been dealt with from the get go.

10 posted on 07/08/2018 3:08:29 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: NTHockey

Far from it


11 posted on 07/08/2018 3:09:39 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: dynoman

US Defense Secretary James Mattis said earlier the missile launched demonstrated North Korea had the ability to hit “everywhere in the world.”

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/north-korea-missile-launch/index.html


12 posted on 07/08/2018 3:16:31 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Only one way to remove NK threat, bomb the hell out of them.


13 posted on 07/08/2018 3:17:42 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sure. One can tell a hard core addict all you want to put down the crack pipe and come clean? But will they listen and act beyond endless promises? Maybe. Maybe not. But more likely, not.

Norks just royally sh•t all over Pompeo AT THE DIRECT BEHEST OF KJU because nobody but nobody (KCNA, Director Kim, Vice Chairman Li, DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesholes, etc etc) operates independently of Fat Boy’s personal instructions otherwise they will suffer the consequences of death...therefore this is all scripted by Kim and comes as no surprise. Cooler heads expected this at some time soon and were under no illusions. Hope is not a strategy.

14 posted on 07/08/2018 3:18:14 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: grania

Vietnam didn’t “unite”, the commie pigs conquered the South.


15 posted on 07/08/2018 3:25:17 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

And this was all choreographed over in Beijing in advance, one week ago, during Rocket Boy’s third unprecedented visit to his master, China and slaveholder Emperor Xi. Those two are working in tandem playing rope a dope with Uncle Sam


16 posted on 07/08/2018 3:27:45 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Vietnam is still a police state, isn’t it?


17 posted on 07/08/2018 3:29:49 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Logical me

It may well come to that.


18 posted on 07/08/2018 3:30:24 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: Brilliant

Not to mention high altitude EMP burst capabilities hitting continental USA (which could be as devastating as a nuke hit) as well as Scud/Nodong IRBM threat to 120 million Japanese and in their ranks 102,000 US citizens here on Japanese soil. This is no joke.


19 posted on 07/08/2018 3:33:13 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: TBP

As is China, Britain, Egypt, Cuba, Russia, most of the “stans” the Middle East, most of Africa, etc.


20 posted on 07/08/2018 3:35:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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