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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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Previously: Peace Dividend?
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:23PM (4 children)
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)
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
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)
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
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.)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex