President Trump Just Sidelined His Own Top Negotiator on North Korea

[DonViejo]

BY JOHN WALCOTT 8:30 PM EDT

President Donald Trump has taken increased control of negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, sidelining his own top negotiator and dismissing the warnings of top intelligence and foreign policy advisors in the wake of last month’s failed summit in Vietnam, officials familiar with the developments tell TIME.

In recent days, Trump shut down an effort by Stephen Biegun, nominally the Administration’s lead negotiator with Pyongyang, to reestablish a back channel through the North’s United Nations mission in New York, according to four U.S. and South Korean officials.

At the same time, Trump continues to dismiss the conclusions of the CIA, State and Defense Departments and other agencies that North Korea will not abandon its nuclear weapons program, continuing to insist that he and Kim can negotiate a deal, according to two U.S.officials.

Trump has long said that he believes he can negotiate a deal himself to relieve economic sanctions on North Korea in exchange for a pledge by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to abandon the nuclear program begun by his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s founder, and continued by his father, Kim Jong-il.

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http://time.com/5554515/donald-trump-north-korea-conclusions-friend/

[Zoonart]

1. Not-The-King

Can't he be stoped from "negotiating' IN SECRET without the State Department... and no recorded history?

[soryang]

2. Beigun was already thrown under the bus in Hanoi by Pompeo and Bolton

Time has probably misled more people in the US about Asia than any other publication. See James Bradley's history, The China Mirage. Time Magazine, the Asian mirage machine was a major focus of his book.

Trump like the ignorant fool he is, listened to Bolton and Pompeo's "all or nothing" no concessions policy, with no trust building, no steps, no phased approach, no reciprocity, no sanctions relief of any kind. Trump thought he could use these people in a good cop, back cop routine.

Pompeo is a John Bircher who thinks the Korean War can still be won after serial disasters in US Asian policy over the twentieth Century.

Bolton doesn't negotiate with anyone. He wrecks agreements, he doesn't make them. He's simply in the business of regime change and war. Biegun has no credibility left after what happened.

This is an ultra conservative bi-partisan regime change policy. Trump is dissembling.

Bait and Switch- US Duplicity at Hanoi

https://www.democraticunderground.com/113323717