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posted by martyb on Thursday May 17 2018, @11:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-have-we-seen-this-before? dept.

North Korea warns it may cancel summit with Trump if it has to give up nukes

A senior North Korean official warned Wednesday that Pyongyang may cancel its summit meeting between Kim Jong Un and President Trump scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, if it is going to be pushed into giving up its nuclear arsenal.

If the Trump administration pressures Pyongyang to unilaterally abandon its nuclear weapons, North Korea would have to reconsider the summit, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

[...] The news came hours after the North canceled a high-level meeting with South Korean officials that was scheduled for Wednesday, citing a joint military exercise as the reason. In its earlier statement, KCNA claimed that the U.S. and South Korea's joint air drill, which began on Friday, was "a bid to make a preemptive airstrike at the DPRK and win the air."

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Sulla on Thursday May 17 2018, @03:43PM (10 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Thursday May 17 2018, @03:43PM (#680750) Journal

    Russian state media saying you can't trust America for things done over a century ago is pretty absurd considering what the USSR did during its reign less than a hundred years ago.

    Calling NK fickle does not mean the US is not also fickle.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @04:03PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @04:03PM (#680759)

    The U.S is also a hypocrite, and a big one. Do you ever hear one of their speakers at some event talking of (it seems their speeches are written by wallstreet con artists, who have no creativity; the repetition is strong and nothing new is said):

    - values
    - shared values
    - more shared values

    When there are no values the U.S holds dear. Their word carries no weight. They make promises only to break them a while later. The U.S is not to be trusted. The U.S has no credibility.

    N.K would do wise to not let their nuclear arsenal go, or they would be invaded and their people murdered. This is about self-preservation against a brutal enemy, in this case the "shared values" U.S.

    • (Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:44PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:44PM (#680791) Homepage Journal

      When I talk about our shared values, I'm talking about Gold and I'm talking about the U.S. Dollar. Together with our faith and our family, they are the bonds that unite us. God Bless America!!!!

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:45PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:45PM (#680792) Journal

      It seems a bit silly to worry about the US invading North Korea. Remember that we fought a brutal war with them - or a police action, or whatever the hell. We FINALLY had them pretty well whipped, and were moving in to finish the job, when CHINA. China doesn't need or want the US on their border. China isn't especially pleased that we have cordial relations, and bases, with Japan and South Korea. They aren't going to tolerate that kind of stuff in North Korea.

      China sent warnings to North Korea in recent months. In effect, "If you start or provoke a war with the United States, you're on your own." It doesn't take much to read the obverse side of a coin. "If the United States attacks you, we have your back, brothers!" So, it all boils down to China's perception of the provocations involved in any future conflicts. But, no, we aren't going to invade North Korea. We *may possibly* try to provoke something covert, like a coup, or an assassination, but certainly nothing overt. The only way US Marines are going to put boots in North Korea is, they are legitimately invited by N.K, or, N.K. first attacks S.K. and/or the United States.

      None of that is likely to change within the lifetime of anyone reading my post. None of it is especially likely to change for generations to come.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @10:23PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @10:23PM (#680914)

        None of that is likely to change within the lifetime of anyone reading my post. None of it is especially likely to change for generations to come.

        Shit, we're going to war with NK :( Anytime someone makes such bold predictions they always seem to fail, especially when they come from someone known for their bravado style bullshit. If the mighty blowhard had said it I'd probably start building a bunker.

  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday May 17 2018, @04:23PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 17 2018, @04:23PM (#680763) Journal

    Russian state media saying you can't trust America for things done over a century ago is pretty absurd

    It's an observation of the obvious. They are able to use hundred-year-old evidence because the chain of "can't trust that government" goes back that far.

    Pointing out that the U.S. is untrustworthy does not mean that the U.S.S.R. was not also untrustworthy.

  • (Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:23PM (4 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:23PM (#680780) Homepage Journal

    1988, I sent a note to Secretary Gorbachev -- they called him a Secretary in those days but he was like a President -- and Raisa. I said, I hear you're coming to New York, why don't you visit Trump Tower? I'll show you my apartment, I'll show you the Bonwit Teller store, the Abercrombie & Fitch, everything. We can have tea. And I'll tell you how to end the Cold War in a way that will be very nice for your Country. They told me "yes." The day comes, I'm waiting. But they don't show, they don't call, nothing. I felt VERY FOOLISH. But I was OK. I've been very successful. Right? But the USSR lost the Cold War very badly, the USSR was totally destroyed. And so was Bonwit Teller, unfortunately.

    Let me tell you, I keep my promises. As everyone knows. I made an appointment with Chairman Kim -- they call him Chairman, he's like a President. June 12 in Singapore, I'll be there. Chairman Kim can come or not come. If he comes, he can have the terrific mango mousse. And we can make a beautiful deal. He doesn't come, very bad for his Country. And double dessert for me!!!

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:55PM (3 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:55PM (#680795) Journal

      USSR lost the Cold War very badly? No. I'll tell you what would have been "very badly". As they teetered, in their final days, North Korea could have launched an invasion, while at the same time, China invaded. NATO would likely have been very worried that those two nominally "communist" countries would divvy everything up between them, then fall to fighting between themselves. So, NATO's response to those invasions, would have been to invade the USSR from the west.

      Of course, there is a nice little tier of nations to Russia's south, who individually and/or collectively could have carved out huge swathes of Russian territory.

      Russians COULD HAVE died in the tens of millions. Women and children raped, murdered, sold into slavery, or sent to gulags.

      But, apparently, you've forgotten all about World War 2, the seige of the capital by the Nazis, and the loss of ~26 million Russian lives. And, that doesn't even take into account the other ~20 million killed by Russia's own communist government.

      You can believe that Russia knows exactly how badly the collapse of the Soviet COULD have been. They've been there, and done that, within the past century.

      • (Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 17 2018, @06:41PM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday May 17 2018, @06:41PM (#680822) Homepage Journal

        Let me tell you, they could have had a Trump hotel in Leningrad -- now St. Petersberg. And a Trump hotel in Moscow, overlooking Red Square. They could have had a first-rate Country, very classy. But that didn't happen. And perhaps it won't ever happen. Their loss!!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @01:14AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @01:14AM (#680958)

        Why are you always the one to respond to TRDT? And always 100% seriously... fucking weird. Maybe you really are a Russian shill??

        • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday May 18 2018, @03:01AM

          by MostCynical (2589) on Friday May 18 2018, @03:01AM (#680983) Journal

          Hopefully, he's a masochist, or arguing for the sake of it.
          (I certainly hope he doesn't think he's talking to the President.)

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