State Department May Resume US Travel to North Korea for Humanitarian Purposes
It looks like the Trump administration may be giving into ROK demands to provide humanitarian assistance to South Korea. I wish someone would ask President Moon why a country with a massive military, a nuclear weapons program, and the regime elite living lavish lifestyles needs humanitarian aid?:
Hopes are growing for a possible breakthrough in the stalemate in denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington, after a key U.S. official visiting South Korea referred to possible resumption of humanitarian aid to the North.
Korea Times
U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun said the U.S. is reviewing possible exemptions to the ban on U.S. citizens traveling to North Korea regarding humanitarian aid. He also referred to improving 70 years of hostile relations after arriving at Incheon International Airport.
“We will also review American citizens’ travel to North Korea for the purpose of facilitating the delivery of aid and ensure that monitoring in line with international standards can occur,” he said.
Improving bilateral relations is among the agreements North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump reached at their historic summit in June.
The U.S. official had refrained from making any public remarks on his previous visits. His statement this time is seen as a message from Washington to Pyongyang. Biegun stated the review on the travel ban for humanitarian aid purposes was a direction from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
You can read more at the link.
Even during WW2 there were parts of the State Department that favored the Nazis over the Brits. During and since the Cold War we have had spies, moles, and even outright traitors in the State Department.
This is no surprise.
The thing is, they may know more than the carefully-crafted story released to us in the newspapers and cable news networks.
Merry Christmas, y’all.
Let the tangerine planes flow now.
Ref, “Stephen Biegun speaks to reporters after arriving at Incheon International Airport…”
Funny, he doesn’t look like someone who just got off a 13 hour flight in economy.
Update: The US and South Korea agreed to send Tamiflu to North Korea. So, that’s what this is about. Roche can’t give that chyte away in the US so they convinced the State Dept into buying $8M dollars worth and pitch it as humanitarian aid.
Those Cheju-do tangerines will do a lot more for flu symptoms than Tamiflu.
Don’t take the flu shot and don’t take Tamiflu.
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/cdcs-fictional-flu-death-stats-and-tamiflus-lethal-side-effects
McGeehee, I took a flu shot a couple times in the late 70s when I was in University; but both times I got sick. After that, a couple times when I was in the Air Force but never got sick from it. No more after 1980.
I took Tamiflu once, in 2017, under the direction of my doctors at MD Anderson in Houston. It actually worked very well. Then again, it was right after 5 months of pretty strong chemo that probably killed off everything not nailed down.
Recently met a man who traveled to North Korea years ago. This guy routinely travels to places only Spec Ops guys talk about visiting. Said the way he was treated (BTW not a US citizen) he would never again travel there.