Trump Should Negotiate With North Korea, Russia Says

[DonViejo]

Source: Newsweek Magazine




WILL TRUMP NEGOTIATE WITH NORTH KOREA? RUSSIA OFFERS TO HELP WITH TALKS

BY MAX KUTNER ON 12/25/17 AT 8:21 AM

Rhetorical foes United States and North Korea should begin direct negotiations to avert war, Russia’s foreign minister said Monday—and offered his help to make it happen.

The U.S. and North Korea do not have formal diplomatic relations and tensions between the countries have increased in recent months, as Kim Jong Un’s rogue state has continued missile tests despite international outcry. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Russia’s state-run RIA news agency on Monday that his country is ready to step in because Russia and North Korea have diplomatic relations.

“We call on partners to focus on solving specific problems of the Korean Peninsula on the basis of negotiations,” Lavrov said. “And for this, it is necessary not to rupture contacts with Pyongyang, but, on the contrary, develop it.”

Lavrov’s comments came three days after the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to impose sanctions on Pyongyang for its November 28 test of a ballistic missile. Following the news of the sanctions, President Donald Trump tweeted, “The United Nations Security Council just voted 15-0 in favor of additional Sanctions on North Korea. The World wants Peace, not Death!” North Korea’s foreign ministry called the sanctions an “act of war,” according to its state-run KCNA news agency.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-negotiate-north-korea-jong-un-russia-758492

[duforsure]

1. He won't

Could he be setting up government contractors, that'll stand to make billions if not trillions, if they'll funnel monies into his super PAC funds for himself? Or a war for profits?

[Botany]

2. Well, Putin is getting the advanced missiles to N. Korea and he does own Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html

North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say

[bluestarone]

11. this is the

BIGGEST PROBLEM!!!!!!

[former9thward]

3. I see no point in negotiating.

N. Korea has broke every agreement it has ever made with the U.S. N. Korea will never ever give up its nuclear weapons program. The U.S. policy for decades has been N. Korea must not have weapons that can effectively hit the U.S. So there is nothing to negotiate.

[Gore1FL]

10. I prefer diplomacy over war.

I expect he kids that would go fight it feel even more strongly than I in this preference.

[AKing]

4. Putin's Puppet gets his marching orders

[nocalflea]

7. Yep. Set up for a diplomatic breakthrough ?

Trump and Putin as saviors?

[mitch96]

8. If tRump does his bidding we then know

Putin has his hand up tRump's ass moving the strings like a Jim Henson wanna be..
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[bucolic_frolic]

5. Public opinion ploy to portray Russia as the peacemaker

[TheBlackAdder]

9. If Putin really meant it, then his lapdog Trump, would ablige.