Tuesday, March 6, 2018

President Moon Jae-in, South Korea: North Korea affirmed its commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.

Story on NHK World, three hours ago. Here.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in are to hold a summit in late April.
Seoul acknowledged that the North has affirmed its commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula. 
The head of South Korea's National Security Office, Chung Eui-yong, said on Tuesday that the summit will take place at the country's facility in Panmunjom on the military demarcation line between the 2 Koreas. It would be the first inter-Korean summit since October 2007.
Splendid. There's just one little thing. We don't believe N. Korea as far as we can throw it. Our history with them is they are reliably duplicitous, and hell-bent on advancing their nuclear program and selling it to our enemies. So all that will take extreme proof. Like the observable destruction of facilities.

Trump on Twitter:
Possible progress being made in talks with North Korea. For the first time in many years, a serious effort is being made by all parties concerned. The World is watching and waiting! May be false hope, but the U.S. is ready to go hard in either direction!
And
We will see what happens! 
@DRUDGE_REPORT
Kim Jong Un Hosts Seoul Envoys First Time Since Taking Power... 
Related reporting on NHK

US to watch developments, keep pressure on N.Korea

Japan cautious about inter-Korean dialogue

* China welcomes inter-Korean summit

* US researchers: NKorean reactor may be operating They see smoke rising from one of their facilities indicating it's operating, however, they do not see the clouds that indicate cooling liquids associated with processing, while saying that could be shunted underground through pipes to a nearby river to disguise its operation. We just flatly do not trust them.

* US Navy admiral stresses readiness on N. Korea.

Odd, all of this straightforward reporting coming from a one-time enemy whom we treated similarly a mere 73 years ago.

While our own click-bait factories cannot be relied upon for unbiased reporting even if their lives depended on it. Their professional lives do depend on it, and they still cannot be relied upon. For fun, let's look how this is reported on American media who must be sure to avoid crediting Trump.

Duckduckgo [N.Korea]

* ABC North Korea open to abandoning its nuclear program, Seoul says

* NBC North Korea says it's willing to talk to U.S., halt nuclear tests

By AP

NBC North Korea will keep testing missiles and nukes, says defense agency

* Boing Boing, North Korea willing to 'denuclearize,' says South

* Oregon Live, North Korea floats giving up nukes, opening door to US talks

* KTLA-TV LA, North Korea Agrees to Halt Tests, Enter Negotiations About Giving up Nuclear W…

* Market Watch, North Korea to attend historic summit with South and is also willing to talk to US

* WSJ, North Korea Says It Is Open to U.S. Talks on Denuclearization

* NYT, North Korea Signals Willingness to 'Denuclearize,' South Says

* CNBC, North Korea threatens to 'counter' US if it holds military drills with South Korea

* 13 News, North Korea to stop weapons tests if it has US talks

* Seattle Times, North Korea says it will halt nuclear and missile tests while talking with US, Seoul says

* Huffington Post, North Korea Says It’s Open To Talking Denuclearization With The U.S.

* Washington Post, North Korea open to talks on curbing its nuclear weapons ...

Eh, not so bad as I had imagined. The first time I looked Huffington post came up referring to Trump's intervening tweets about cable news, CNN becoming irrelevant compared with Fox, another about the Oscars being lowest rated in history, because they don't have stars anymore except for your president (kidding). He said that, I didn't. A Federal judge ruling he has the right to expire DACA even as it works through lower courts. Huffington Post writer said, "the most Trump[ian] tweets imaginable." The headlines changed as I was writing this.



4 comments:

edutcher said...

Believe it when you see it.

Although...

Those who have been paying attention will recall several unexplained landslides, cave-ins, and such at the Norks' weapons lab, so it may just be The Donald, with help, took the bull by the horns.

As it were.

YMMV

bagoh20 said...

"We don't believe N. Korea as far as we can throw it. "

I wouldn't use that particular phrase with a Kim.

Because that is an actual distance

Chip Ahoy said...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

How weird.

I would have guessed midgets could be thrown further than that.

A bowling with midges queues up after that. They do poorly too.

m9777 said...

Why does Neville Chamberlin come to mind?