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Eugene

(61,900 posts)
Thu Jan 1, 2015, 12:49 PM Jan 2015

Kim Jong-un says North Korea is open to 'highest-level' talks with South

Source: Agence France-Press

Kim Jong-un says North Korea is open to 'highest-level' talks with South

Agence France-Presse
theguardian.com, Thursday 1 January 2015 12.42 GMT

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Thursday proposed the “highest-level” talks with South Korea, opening the way to a historic summit as his communist country battles to fend off UN prosecution over its human rights record.

The sudden move, made during Kim’s traditional New Year message, would clear the path for the first inter-Korean leaders’ meeting since a 2007 summit in Pyongyang.

“Depending on the mood and circumstances to be created, we have no reason not to hold the highest-level talks,” Kim said in the televised speech, calling for a thaw in icy relations between the two Koreas, which remain technically at war.

Seoul welcomed the overture as “meaningful”, coming after the North’s state media had previously used sexist and personal language in attacks on South Korea’s first female president, Park Geun-Hye.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/01/kim-jong-un-says-north-korea-is-open-to-highest-level-talks-with-south
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Kim Jong-un says North Korea is open to 'highest-level' talks with South (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2015 OP
Won't he get nose-bleed? rock Jan 2015 #1
Kim Jong-Un threatened nuclear war in 2013. DetlefK Jan 2015 #2

DetlefK

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2. Kim Jong-Un threatened nuclear war in 2013.
Thu Jan 1, 2015, 01:25 PM
Jan 2015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Korean_crisis

It's almost as if he will do and say anything to stay in charge, damn the consequences.

I would really like to know how they pulled this off with respect to the homeland-propaganda:
"We will destroy them in an all-out war!!! For the fatherland!!!"
"Actually, everybody go back to the garrison-barracks, there won't be a war."
"Dear Leader Kim Jong-Un has decided to spare South Korea and the US. For now."



Personally, I think that North Korea is INTENTIONALLY behaving like a madman.
"I don't care how short he is. I'm not gonna fight him. That fucker is crazy, man."
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