Kim Jong Un: North Korea may 'seek a new path' if US doesn't negotiate
Source: The Hill
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned the U.S. against continuing to sanction North Korea in his New Year's speech Tuesday.
Kim said he would have to seek a "new path" if the U.S. moves forward with sanctions and pressure, and demanded that the U.S. not hold further joint military exercises with South Korea, according to media reports.
He added that he's prepared for more denuclearization talks with the U.S. and said he's willing to meet with President Trump, according to media reports.
But Kim said North Korea will need to take a different path if the U.S. continues to break its promises and misjudges our patience by unilaterally demanding certain things and pushes ahead with sanctions and pressure," according to the Associated Press.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/423379-kim-jong-un-warns-us-we-may-seek-a-new-path-if-demands-not-met
NKorean leader says hes ready for more talks with Trump
https://apnews.com/bad84f5c60df4a84823de5c4f1893ee2
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,003 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,051 posts)But Dotard says Rocketman is "very honorable".
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)Takket
(21,715 posts)And we are all safe now.... right?!?
akraven
(1,975 posts)we're a prime target. Every base/post is beefing up, and the CG is on full watch.
Yep. I'm scared. Our little cabin is wood and wouldn't last, and we both remember the "duck and cover" drills from the 60's. I just hope sTrump and Kim leave my kitties okay.
soryang
(3,299 posts)...this will further reduce North Koreas foreign exchange account to a level that is not palatable to the leadership. So it's a return to regime change politics by the US, and self reliance ideology by the North. The message to the South as the mediator between the US and the North was very soft and hopeful.
Te Yong Ho, the well known North Korean diplomatic defector says that some relief from sanctions in the form of reopening Kumgansang resort and Kaeseong Industrial Zone is a major objective. The current sanctions regime blocks this kind of economic cooperation between North and South Korea.
Eugene
(61,974 posts)Source: New York Times
By David E. Sanger
Jan. 1, 2019
Nearly two years into his presidency and more than six months after his historic summit meeting with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, President Trump finds himself essentially back where he was at the beginning in achieving the ambitious goal of getting Mr. Kim to relinquish his nuclear arsenal.
That was the essential message of Mr. Kims annual New Years televised speech, where he reiterated that international sanctions must be lifted before North Korea will give up a single weapon, dismantle a single missile site or stop producing nuclear material.
The list of recent North Korean demands was a clear indicator of how the summit meeting in Singapore last June altered the optics of the relationship more than the reality. Those demands were very familiar from past confrontations: that all joint military training between the United States and South Korea be stopped, that American nuclear and military capability within easy reach of the North be withdrawn, and that a peace treaty ending the Korean War be completed.
Its fair to say that not much has changed, although we now have more clarity regarding North Koreas bottom line, Evans J.R. Revere, a veteran American diplomat and former president of the Korea Society, wrote in an email.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/world/asia/kim-trump-nuclear.html