North Korea Says It is Becoming Impatient Waiting for the US to Drop Sanctions
This is all so predictable:
North Korea on Saturday said the US was acting with “alarming” impatience on the issue of denuclearisation, after Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, stressed the need to maintain full sanctions pressure on Pyongyang.
The contrasting comments at a security forum in Singapore came after a UN report showed Pyongyang was continuing with its nuclear and missile programmes and evading sanctions through ship-to-ship oil transfers.
At historic talks with Donald Trump, the US President, in June, Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, signed up to a vague commitment to “denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula” – a far cry from long-standing US demands for complete, verifiable and irreversible disarmament.
While US officials have publicly been optimistic about the agreement, Pyongyang appears to have made little substantial progress and Washington has become concerned that some UN member states are easing sanctions.
At the ASEAN Regional Forum, Ri Yong Ho, North Korea’s Foreign Minister, criticised US impatience on denuclearisation.
“What is alarming, however, is the insistent moves manifested within the US to go back to the old, far from its leader’s intention,” he said, according to a statement.
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Since the June agreement, Pyongyang had taken “goodwill measures”, including a halt on nuclear and missile tests and “dismantling a nuclear test ground”, he said.
“However, the United States, instead of responding to these measures, is raising its voice louder for maintaining the sanctions against the DPRK,” he said, using the initials of the North’s official name.
“As long as the US does not show in practice its strong will to remove our concerns, there will be no case whereby we will move forward first unilaterally,” Mr Ri added. [The Telegraph]
You can read more at the link, but as I have long said the North Koreans were going to try and get the sanctions dropped for little to nothing in return. They need the sanctions dropped in order for South Korean President Moon Jae-in to restart the cross-border economic projects that will bring in huge sums of money for the Kim regime. This money in turn will go to further modernizing their nuclear and missile programs.
To get President Trump to drop the sanctions that is why the North Koreans have been behaving and saying nice things about President Trump. Likewise South Korean President Moon has been saying nice things as well to include saying President Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize. They are trying to appeal to President Trump’s ego to get the sanctions dropped for little to nothing in return.
For the love of Buddha, turn UFG back on – it’s not too late (and will give me something to do this month).
Similar conversation:
Teen: “Can I drive the car tonight?”
Parent: “Did you do your homework, wash the dishes, and mow the back yard like you promised?”
Teen: “No; but I did update Facebook and Twitter.”
nK has not done one thing to de-nuke but commie moon is supporting their position….no real surprise. Bringing nK to heal will never work when the country, South Korea, who is supposed to be one of our closest allies is directly working for the interests of nK. To bad the rightful President of South Korea, President Pak, is still not in charge.
Fatty is getting impatient with Commissar Moon now.