‘Kim Says He’ll Give Up Weapons If U.S. Promises Not to Invade’
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NYT: ‘Kim Says He’ll Give Up Weapons If U.S. Promises Not to Invade’
He doesn’t want to get the Gaddafi treatment. It’s not an unreasonable request
Chris Menahan | Information Liberation - April 30, 2018
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is willing to give up his nukes if he can be assured he won’t get the Gaddafi treatment.
From The New York Times:
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, told President Moon Jae-in of South Korea when they met that he would abandon his nuclear weapons if the United States would agree to formally end the Korean War and promise that it would not invade his country, a South Korean government spokesman said Sunday.
In a faith-building gesture ahead of a summit meeting with President Trump, Mr. Kim also said he would invite experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States to watch the shutdown next month of his country’s only known underground nuclear test site.
The comments by Mr. Kim were made on Friday when the leaders of the two Koreas met at Panmunjom, a village on their shared border, the spokesman, Yoon Young-chan, said on Sunday, providing additional details of the meeting.
“I know the Americans are inherently disposed against us, but when they talk with us, they will see that I am not the kind of person who would shoot nuclear weapons to the south, over the Pacific or at the United States,” Mr. Kim told Mr. Moon, according to Mr. Yoon’s account of the meeting.
It was another dramatically conciliatory statement by Mr. Kim, whose country threatened to do exactly those things during the height of nuclear tensions last year.
[…]Even in the additional details released on Sunday by South Korean officials, Mr. Kim appeared to hedge his bet, indicating that denuclearizing his country could be a long process that required multiple rounds of negotiations and steps to build trust. But he laid out a vague idea of what his impoverished country would demand in return for giving up its nuclear weapons.
“If we meet often and build trust with the United States and if an end to the war and nonaggression are promised, why would we live in difficulty with nuclear weapons?” Mr. Kim was quoted as saying by South Korean officials.
Mr. Moon has already informed Mr. Trump about the contents of the meeting, briefing him during a call on Saturday. According to Mr. Moon’s office, he told the American president that Mr. Kim said he and Mr. Trump could “get along well,” to which Mr. Trump responded that he “looked forward” to their meeting.
He doesn’t want to get the Gaddafi treatment. It’s not an unreasonable request.
Regardless, Trump’s hard pressure tactics are actually working and he deserves all the credit in the world for bringing this about.
South Korea’s Foreign Minister tells me in Seoul that “clearly credit goes to President Trump” for bringing North Korea to the negotiating table. “He’s been determined to come to grips with this from day one,” Kang Kyung-wha says.
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— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) April 26, 2018
Hopefully they open up their country to foreign investment as odds are it will see explosive growth like we haven’t seen in decades.
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"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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Re: ‘Kim Says He’ll Give Up Weapons If U.S. Promises Not to Invade’
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A McDonald\'s in North Korea? The Kim Jong Un regime wants America to invest in North Korea. Maybe that Nobel Prize isn't isn't such a wild idea after all. As Kim Jong-un lifts the veil on his secretive regime and vows to shut down his nuclear test site, it has now emerged his regime is eager for former enemy the US to invest in North Korea and expand its economy.
Chung In Moon, special adviser to President Moon Jae-in, suggested American fast food giant McDonalds could even set up outlets in Pyongyang as tensions between North Korea and the West thaw.
He said: "They want American investment."
"They want American investment coming to North Korea.
"They welcome American sponsors and multilateral consortiums coming into North Korea."
He added building a Trump Tower might be a possibility for future "modern" North Korea.
His comments come after the historic moment that North Korean Kim Jong-un stepped into the South with Moon and exchanged a landmark handshake.
In a passing statement, North Korean officials said they wanted their regime to be a "normal country" and brought up the possibility of a "McDonalds-style" US investment.
The state dinner was streamed live all over the world on Friday, but was only revealed to North Koreans 12 hours later when Kim Jong-un returned back home.
The reception continued during the day summit, where the Korean leaders signed a joint pledge, outlining their goal towards a "complete" denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.
Kim was praised for his diplomatic move crossing the border to the South and initiating denuclearisation talks.
However, skeptics have raised concerns that the pledge may not hold strong, recalling the regime's previous unfulfilled peace declarations.
Details of the meeting emerged as observers reported the North Korean leader sipping on champagne, while his officials mentioned the possibility investing in US markets.
In a fleeting statement, Kim said he was "embarrassed" by his country's "poor infrastructure" after South Korean president Moon Jae-in mentioned he would like to visit the North and climb Mount Paektu.
The North Korean leader is expected to meet with US president Donald Trump in May.
The location has not been confirmed, but it is believed the talks will be held in either Singapore or Mongolia.
Mr Trump said: "We'll be setting up a meeting very shortly.
"We have broken it down to probably two sites.
"And hopefully we're going to have great success." Onward and upward, airforce
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