Trump promised Kim he'd sign declaration ending Korean War at summit
Source: The Hill
President Trump promised North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he would sign a declaration ending the Korean War during their June summit in Singapore, according to a new Vox report.
Trump told Kim he would sign the peace declaration shortly after the meeting, sources familiar with the discussions told Vox. However, in the months since the summit, Trump has not done so, instead stating Pyongyang must denuclearize before he signs the agreement.
One source said Trump's failure to sign the treaty in the months since the summit could partially explain North Korea's unwillingness to dismantle their nuclear arsenal.
“It makes sense why the North Koreans are angry,” the source told Vox. “Having Trump promise a peace declaration and then moving the goalposts and making it conditional would be seen as the US reneging on its commitments.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/404221-trump-promised-kim-jong-un-he-would-sign-a-declaration-ending-the-korean
Mr. Art of the deal strikes again.
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please tweet that. Or, give it to a friend who tweets.
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... Kim to take measures to give up his nuclear warheads first. It set aside those aspects of the North Korean position reflected in the Singapore declaration. The report came from Channel A News Top Ten earlier today. Pompeo was reportedly, according to one account, trying to work something around the dispute with North Korea, when Trump sent his letter to Kim, via Panmunjum. According to the Channel A "exclusive" report, it was Trump's letter which prompted the "hostile" response from Kim Yong Chol, the Vice Chairman. The presence of the diplomatic working group for the US at the White House meeting when the "hostile letter" was discussed and during which the President cancelled Pompeo's mission to Pyongyang, suggests that the return letter may have come back the same route.
An analysis of the current deadlock with North Korea was published in the Atlantic.com recently based upon a discussion with South Korea's top policy analyst. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/north-korea-war-declaration/568603/
I wrote about the so called "hostile letter" here yesterday.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/113322017
It may be that Pompeo is getting the Tillerson treatment at this point. The US ambassador to Seoul is a career military person, the recent commander of PACOM, Admiral Harry Harris. Initially, there was consternation with respect to the suspension of the joint US South Korean exercises in the US. Mattis follows up with the not so veiled threat to resume joint exercises with South Korea saying he'll wait for the diplomats to play their role and see what happens. From the news in South Korea this morning, and their response, I doubt if they were consulted about this. While the MSM discusses Mattis' remarks in terms of large military exercises next year, the large Vigilant Ace joint exercise in South Korea normally takes place in the first fiscal quarter. It last took place in December 2017.
I like the comment at the end of this Guardian article:
Vipin Narang, a politics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described US strategy as being “in a state of total disarray”.
“Any work toward denuclearisation had to be preceded by trust/peace building,” he wrote in a Twitter post. “Trump wasn’t listening. And here we are.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/us-to-resume-war-games-as-north-korea-negotiations-stall
