Declassified Documents Show Former President Carter Tried to Hold Summit with Kim Il-sung
I don’t think anyone will be surprised to find out that former President Jimmy Carter tried to hold a peace conference with the North Koreans back in 1979:
The United States pushed for high-level talks with South and North Korea on reducing military tensions in the late 1970s amid a controversy over a troop pullout or reduction plan, declassified diplomatic documents showed Sunday.
The rift between the presidents of the allies at that time — Park Chung-hee and Jimmy Carter — about the size of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) was highlighted in a transcript of their talks in Seoul on June 30, 1979.
“I can’t promise that we will freeze forces levels,” Carter told Park, according to a White House document on their hourlong conversation.
Carter questioned South Korea’s commitment to a hike in defense budgets to counter North Korea’s rapid military buildup.
Park stressed his military was making efforts to beef up combat power but needed more time.
Cater asked, “My understanding is that you are particularly concerned about the presence of the Second (Infantry) Division and the Combined Forces Command. Do you also want the U.S. to maintain its protective nuclear umbrella as well?”
Park said yes. And Carter asked again, “If we decide to modify or reduce other force levels, you would like adequate notification and consultations?”
Park also said yes.
In the summit, Carter confirmed South Korea’s clear opposition to either the withdrawal of the USFK or a scale-down, with the North’s military threats growing. The 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
Carter soon accelerated a drive for dialogue with North Korea on easing tensions. [Yonhap]
You can read more at the link, but Carter tried to hold a summit with the ROK and North Korea in Jakarta, Indonesia. It never happened because the Kim Il-sung regime blew him off.
Carter is a friend of jihad terrorism.
Carter wasn’t paying enough like Commie Moon.
That’s when I was playing Air Force… We actually had an “unplanned alert exercise” over something happening in Korea…
Meanwhile, Carter was forcing Rhodesia to accept Pyongyang-educated Robert Mugabe after an astoundingly crooked election, betraying the Shah of Iran (and standing around with his thumb in his arse while our Embassy was overrun and hostages taken), dumping former US ally Samoza and condemning Nicaragua and much of Central America to commie civil wars like those in Southeast Asia and Africa, ignoring his brother Billy making illegal negotiations with Libyan dictator Khadafi, Trying to force Israel not to defend itself against repeated attacks by PLO terrorists, and so on…
He also revealed we were building a stealth bomber, later called the F-117, long before it was ready and continued making cuts in our conventional forces.
Buy me some coffee and I’ll tell you how I really feel about that formless, feckless, pusillanimous knave.
I think him and Commie Moon belong in a dark hole somewhere.