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PER SOUTH KOREAN NEWS
Developing...
UPDATE :
North Korea has announced it is suspending scheduled talks with South Korea due to US-South Korean military drills, which it called a "provocation".
North Korea's state-run Central News Agency (KCNA) said that the so-called 'Max Thunder' drills between the South Korean and US Air Force are simply a "rehearsal for [an] invasion of the North and a provocation amid warming inter-Korean ties," Yonhap News Agency reported.
"This exercise targeting us, which is being carried out across South Korea, is a flagrant challenge to the Panmunjom Declaration and an intentional military provocation running counter to the positive political development on the Korean Peninsula. The [US] will also have to undertake careful deliberations about the fate of the planned North Korea-US summit in light of this provocative military ruckus jointly conducted with the South Korean authorities," KCNA said.
The talks, scheduled for 16 May, were meant as a follow-up to the historic and opulent ceremony during which North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in signed the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity, and Unification of the Korean Peninsula during the Inter-Korean Summit on 27 April. The signing took place in the in the neutral territory between the two Koreas, the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), and officially ended the war that began when the north and south split in a battle over communism and democracy that began on 25 June 1950.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/north-south-korea-suspends-high-level-talks-planned-us-military-drills-kim-jong-un-moon-jae-in-a8353261.html
triron
(21,916 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)Will Trump abort the exercises ?
orangecrush
(19,237 posts)SayItLoud
(1,696 posts)Because KJU was so nice to release the hostages that he kidnapped I, the greatest potus ever will repay him by immediately suspending these military exercises.
The reason I am doing this is because I want to get a Nobel Prize, I mean because it will save us a lot of money.
The end.
MissB
(15,800 posts)On edit: for any sort of agreement to work, the US has to actually engage in diplomacy. That aint happening in this administration.
Least of all with this Bush third term, basically.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)Bush was nowhere near this bad.
sandensea
(21,530 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)The Bush crime family makes Trump look like he is running a candy store and skimming a little cash out of the register. And they've been doing it since before Donald Trump was born.
orangecrush
(19,237 posts)he's just warming up.
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)He's 71 years old.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)iluvtennis
(19,758 posts)gonna happen
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Only those that don't know anything about NK are surprised.
Raise expectations then pull away, repeat until the otherside makes major compromises and you do what you were going to do anyway.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)get to that carrot on that stick ...
grantcart
(53,061 posts)You can't cheat an honest man?
Well the easiest man to con is a con.
Croney
(4,646 posts)0rganism
(23,856 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Kiss your Nobel Prize goodbye, Fat Boy!
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)unblock
(51,974 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,483 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,217 posts)North Korea has announced it is suspending scheduled talks with South Korea due to US-South Korean military drills, which it called a "provocation".
North Korea's state-run Central News Agency (KCNA) said that the so-called 'Max Thunder' drills between the South Korean and US Air Force are simply a "rehearsal for [an] invasion of the North and a provocation amid warming inter-Korean ties," Yonhap News Agency reported.
"This exercise targeting us, which is being carried out across South Korea, is a flagrant challenge to the Panmunjom Declaration and an intentional military provocation running counter to the positive political development on the Korean Peninsula. The [US] will also have to undertake careful deliberations about the fate of the planned North Korea-US summit in light of this provocative military ruckus jointly conducted with the South Korean authorities," KCNA said.
The talks, scheduled for 16 May, were meant as a follow-up to the historic and opulent ceremony during which North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in signed the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity, and Unification of the Korean Peninsula during the Inter-Korean Summit on 27 April. The signing took place in the in the neutral territory between the two Koreas, the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), and officially ended the war that began when the north and south split in a battle over communism and democracy that began on 25 June 1950.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/north-south-korea-suspends-high-level-talks-planned-us-military-drills-kim-jong-un-moon-jae-in-a8353261.html
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,483 posts)threatening to cancel the summit altogether then?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142059913
Brother Buzz
(36,217 posts)But I'm sure the orange anus will tweet some nonsense shortly that will clarify things
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,483 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)The NKs were probably shocked at how much was being offered considering the destruction of their main facility.
Civic Justice
(870 posts)America pushes things trying to "show power", when everyone already know we have a expensive military,
It was a DUMB move on our part to even engage in a Joint Actions at this time, and one can be certain, America pressured S.Korea into going along with it.
Right Wing Madness.... along with the idiocy of Bolton and the Rest of the Dumb Republicans can't get off this "Let's show American white man power madness"... They can't come to terms the world is "tired of it"!!!!!!!
One would be not fully aware to not acknowledge that much of the Middle East Conflicts is funded by many mechanism of the GOP, because to them, its about money and the long history of conflict generating mass volumes of money, and then the white man ideal of coming in after the fact and seeking to exert his influence with proposals of self interest design. These foreign people know, because many of the them were "western educated" and they know how the white man thinks. The only problem is, American's as a whole deny the truths being spoken and make themselves blind to the nature of "white ideology and white dominance politics".
If we want to fix America, we can't be blind to this stuff, and we need to begin to Call It Out For What It Is. When we do that, then Diplomacy will Flourish like never before.
Kim is no fool, he knows what he is looking at... America needs to stop it, and Let N. & S. Korea develop and design their agreements. All is needed from America, is a signature of "no aggression" and "cessation of war posturing". Nothing more is needed from America.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Civic Justice
(870 posts)no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)Yes, the same FAKE media they criticize. So the State Dept is so understaffed that they had to find out about it from the news. Perfect example of how fucked up this admin is.
The moron's summit is still planned to go ahead, for now that is.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)asses off in Pyongyang.
They knew all about the joint maneuvers back at least to the Olympics and waited until now to jerk us around. South Korea and Japan are not happy.
Canoe52
(2,944 posts)just in case -
Civic Justice
(870 posts)I get the sarcasm, but this is not the time for Sarcasm... Other nations don't understand such sarcasm.. One has to be mindful of what they say, when it concerns the world... not everyone is up to being in-tune with American jokes and American sarcasm, to many it is considered as arrogance and in sensitivity.
The bomb is not the Answer, N. Korea has bombs, as does China and Russia, and no way China and Russia will sit silent and allow the US to N-Bomb North Korea, and nor does S. Korea want it done, and nor does Japan want it done, Nor does the world community of nations want a bomb set off.
DIPLOMACY is about RESPECT FOR AND UNTO OTHERS, IN A INTERACTIVELY MANNER OF RESPECT.
Canoe52
(2,944 posts)Vinca
(50,170 posts)RandySF
(57,661 posts)Squinch
(50,774 posts)... well... no, not really. Totally predictable.
Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)during President Clinton's presidency...he totally got played. It is what they do...but why should they make any agreement when we break our agreements like with Iran. Trumpy as usual has totally screwed up...blew up the middle east and won't get jack from Korea.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Is Sarah Huckster Sanders back? I can't wait to hear they flatter don the con with an explanation of this latest failure.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I can't help what I see. Grand Panjandrums on both sides.
DFW
(54,056 posts)tblue37
(64,982 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)RockRaven
(14,784 posts)Shocked and surprised and caught off-guard.
Freethinker65
(9,934 posts)This oneupsmanship will continue with each side's leader declaring victory to their country once the other side blinks. Then the loser will make more demands and threats and the "game" continues.
Unfortunately both NK and the US have unstable egotistical leaders, so who knows how this will eventually end? I assume SK and China will serve as the rational stable adults and try to calm the toddlers with weapons down.
sdfernando
(4,897 posts)oasis
(49,152 posts)what Scaramucci suggested Steve Bannon performs on himself.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)Paladin
(28,204 posts)paparush
(7,964 posts)The man will stop at nothing to derail Mueller.
drray23
(7,587 posts)Given that Trump has been played all along so far, Kim is going for broke. He wants to see if Trump will cancel the joint exercises. If he does, it will be a huge victory for kim.
elmac
(4,642 posts)orangecrush
(19,237 posts)lame54
(35,141 posts)From the damaged test site
The U.S. could be quite helpful
Kim Jung-Un is a fool
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)I was so tired of all Trump's winning, this is a nice change.