"Whether the US will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown..."

[Miles Archer]

North Korea slams ‘ignorant and stupid’ Pence, renews summit threat



“I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the US vice-president,” (vice-minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son Hui) said in a statement released by the state-run KCNA news agency.

“We will neither beg the US for dialogue nor take the trouble to persuade them if they do not want to sit together with us,” she said, adding she would recommend Kim cancel the talks if Washington continues to make such threats.

Similar comments comparing North Korea to Libya from Trump’s hawkish National Security Advisor John Bolton caused the first threat by Pyongyang last week to cancel the Singapore meeting.

“Whether the US will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon the decision and behavior of the United States,” Choe added.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/north-korea-slams-ignorant-stupid-pence-renews-summit-threat/

[gordianot]

1. In Trump speak North Korea showed a sign of weakness.

They know what buttons to press to upset North Korea. No one can deal with despotic authoritarians that includes other despotic authoritarians.