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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."
See also:
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- For Pentagon, South Korea drills became a crucial but quiet endeavor
- North Korea Surprises Trump Administration by Acting Like North Korea Again
- How rival agendas threaten Trump's summit with Kim
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Previously: Peace Dividend?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by NewNic on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:42PM (2 children)
The "conservative" mindset in full view
Conservative goal: Make my portion of the pie a larger proportion of the total.
Liberal goal: Increase the size of the pie.
I think I just found my new sig.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday May 18 2018, @02:49AM
Hippies and anarchists: who ate the pie?
Rest of the world: it wasn't just your pie, America.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 23 2018, @02:40AM
You're a fucking liar. Capitalism is what has increased the size of the pie and brought most of the world out of poverty. The policies of leftists like yourself keep the pie the same size by removing any incentive that appeals to human nature and forcing everyone's slice to be the same size. You're a fucking idiot who won't learn from history. Your crab-bucket mentality is why we can't have nice things.
Here's a better sig:
Conservative goal: We finally figured some things out. Let's not break them. Let's build on them.
"Liberal" goal: Let's keep breaking everything until we find a combination that's 1% better than now; nevermind that 99% of the things we try will be worse, and billions of people will suffer in the meantime.
Fucking idiots.