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posted by martyb on Monday October 07 2019, @01:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-luck-with-that dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Working-level nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington have broken off, North Korea's top negotiator has said, dashing prospects for an end to months of stalemate.

The talks, at an isolated conference centre on the outskirts of Stockholm, were the first such formal discussions since US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in June and agreed to restart negotiations that stalled after a failed summit in Vietnam in February.

The North's chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Myong Gil, who spent much of the day in talks with an American delegation, cast the blame on what he portrayed as US inflexibility, saying the other side's negotiators would not "give up their old viewpoint and attitude".

"The negotiations have not fulfilled our expectation and finally broke off," Kim told reporters outside the North Korean embassy, speaking through an interpreter.

The US State Department said Kim's comments did not reflect "the content or spirit" of nearly nine hours of talks, and Washington had accepted Sweden's invitation to return for more discussions with Pyongyang in two weeks.

"The US brought creative ideas and had good discussions with its DPRK counterparts," spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement. North Korea is also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

She said the US delegation had previewed a number of new initiatives that would pave the way for progress in the talks, and underscored the importance of more intensive engagement.

[...] On Saturday, negotiator Kim accused the US of having no intention of solving difficulties through dialogue, but said a complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula was still possible.

It would only happen "when all the obstacles that threaten our safety and check our development are removed completely without a shadow of doubt," he said, in an apparent reference to North Korea's desire for Washington to ease economic pressure.

On Sunday, China's President Xi Jinping and the North's leader exchanged messages to reaffirm the neighbours' relationship on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties. China is the North's only major ally.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 07 2019, @09:03PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 07 2019, @09:03PM (#903845)

    Then your position makes no sense unless you're a shill or an idiot. Do you not believe the President is capable of obstructing justice? Do you really think the Mueller report expnerated Trump? Do you think it is ok to threaten the death penalty for treason to a whistleblower trying to alert THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT about wrong doing? You know, the not-possibly-treason sort of thing? Do you think we should jail Schiff because Trump doesn't like being investigated?

  • (Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday October 08 2019, @04:13AM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday October 08 2019, @04:13AM (#903957) Journal
    "Then your position makes no sense unless you're a shill or an idiot."

    Quit looking in the mirror, I'm over here.

    "Do you not believe the President is capable of obstructing justice?"

    Of course he is. Now show me some evidence he's actually done so?

    Oh, that's right, you can't. You'll just wave your hands and scream some more.

    "Do you really think the Mueller report expnerated Trump?"

    Again, an investigation of this nature never exonerates anyone. It only finds, or fails to find, cause to charge someone. It found no such cause. That's not an exoneration - but an exoneration is not a possibility in such a situation. It's illogical to demand milk from a hen.

    The rest of this pap is even worse. You're just circle-jerking yourself with nonsense.
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