Plans for US contact with North Korea cancelled

[struggle4progress]

Reuters
Saturday 25 February 2017 00.26 EST

Plans for the first contact between North Korea and the United States after Donald Trump took office have reportedly been cancelled after the US state department denied a visa for the top envoy from Pyongyang.

The talks, between senior North Korean foreign ministry envoy Choe Son Hui and former US officials, were scheduled to take place on 1 and 2 March in New York but were called off after Choe was denied a visa, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/25/plans-for-first-post-trump-us-contact-with-north-korea-cancelled-says-report

[OldHippieChick]

1. Oh yeah, sure we want to meet with you

except we won't let you into the country. What could go wrong?

[nycbos]

2. Using a banned nerve agent in an international airport kind of changes things.

Obama would have done the same.

[OldHippieChick]

4. Oh, I agree

My point is why pretend we are actually going to entertain you when we know we won't?

[nycbos]

5. I am guessing the trip was planned before the incident.

[dalton99a]

3. Must have heard about the scary poison