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Thursday, May 24, 2018 5:16:30 PM
Kim Jung Un met secretly in China and I am wondering if China is afraid of losing their control over NK.
Rumors of a visit by Kim, or another high-level diplomat, were sparked when a mysterious plane from North Korea landed in the Chinese port city of Dalian on Monday, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing China's Xinhua news agency.
During Monday and Tuesday's meeting, Kim reiterated his commitment to North Korea's denuclearization, adding that the regime didn't need nuclear weapons if a "relevant party" drops its "hostile policy and security threats" against it.
"I hope to build mutual trust with the U.S. through dialogue," Kim was quoted saying.
Kim and Xi met in Beijing in late March -- Kim's first trip outside North Korea as the country's leader -- before the despot held a historic April summit with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in. During the meeting with Xi, which was announced days after a mystery train appeared in the Chinese capital, Kim first said North Korea was “committed to denuclearization.”
China, North Korea's biggest benefactor, has been eager to assert its importance in the process of lowering tensions on the Korean Peninsula. China is North Korea's only major ally, though trade between the two countries plummeted due to the United Nations economic sanctions.
President Trump tweeted shortly after news of Kim's visit was confirmed about his own upcoming meeting with Xi.
"I will be speaking to my friend, President Xi of China, this morning at 8:30. The primary topics will be Trade, where good things will happen, and North Korea, where relationships and trust are building," Trump tweeted.
I will be speaking to my friend, President Xi of China, this morning at 8:30. The primary topics will be Trade, where good things will happen, and North Korea, where relationships and trust are building.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2018
Kim traveling to China by plane also differed from the travel methods typically employed by his father, late leader Kim Jong Il, who traveled in an armored train for his trips abroad. Kim's father was afraid of flying, but Kim Jong Un appears not to be afflicted with the same panic over air travel. A North Korea's Air Koryo plane was spotted at the airport in Dalian.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/08/kim-jong-un-meets-secretly-in-china-with-xi-jinping-ahead-nuke-talks-with-us.html
Kim Jong Un is making new demands
May 19, 2018
Now that he’s gotten the world’s attention, “Little Rocket Man” has spent a week testing its patience.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un got in a snit over exercises involving nuclear-capable B-52 bombers that the US, Japan and South Korea were planning to conduct over the Korean Peninsula. Kim threatened to cancel ongoing talks with the South.
Days earlier, he said he might pull out from meeting President Trump on June 12 in Singapore. Kim was mad at national security adviser John Bolton’s call for North Korea to completely denuclearize.
It may have been Bolton’s choice of comparison that miffed him. Bolton appeared to extol Libya’s move to denuclearize, though that country’s dictator, Moammar Khadafy, eventually was deposed and killed.
Trump tried to placate Kim by disavowing Bolton’s remarks. As for the training over the Korean Peninsula, the US removed the B-52s from the program.
The antics are crimping what appeared to be remarkable progress toward reducing the North Korean threat to world peace and boosting ties among Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington, DC.
Kim has also barred South Koreans from joining an international group of journalists who are planning to witness the dismantling of a nuclear weapons test site. The move came just a week after promises of “transparency” from Kim.
On Saturday, the diminutive dictator resurrected another issue. He demanded that Seoul return 12 North Korean defectors.
The North’s Red Cross accused South Korean officials of betraying the spirit of a recent inter-Korean summit by not returning the women, who came to the South in 2016 from China.
North Korea said Seoul should “severely punish those involved in the case, send our women citizens to their families without delay and thus show the will to improve North-South ties.”
Seoul insists the women want to stay in the South.
North Korea is notorious for its labor camps, where beatings, rape, torture and punishing conditions are the norm, according to defectors.
The latest demands came on the same day that two North Koreans, including a military officer, were found in the Yellow Sea and defected to South Korea.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/19/kim-jong-un-is-making-new-demands/amp/
Rumors of a visit by Kim, or another high-level diplomat, were sparked when a mysterious plane from North Korea landed in the Chinese port city of Dalian on Monday, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing China's Xinhua news agency.
During Monday and Tuesday's meeting, Kim reiterated his commitment to North Korea's denuclearization, adding that the regime didn't need nuclear weapons if a "relevant party" drops its "hostile policy and security threats" against it.
"I hope to build mutual trust with the U.S. through dialogue," Kim was quoted saying.
Kim and Xi met in Beijing in late March -- Kim's first trip outside North Korea as the country's leader -- before the despot held a historic April summit with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in. During the meeting with Xi, which was announced days after a mystery train appeared in the Chinese capital, Kim first said North Korea was “committed to denuclearization.”
China, North Korea's biggest benefactor, has been eager to assert its importance in the process of lowering tensions on the Korean Peninsula. China is North Korea's only major ally, though trade between the two countries plummeted due to the United Nations economic sanctions.
President Trump tweeted shortly after news of Kim's visit was confirmed about his own upcoming meeting with Xi.
"I will be speaking to my friend, President Xi of China, this morning at 8:30. The primary topics will be Trade, where good things will happen, and North Korea, where relationships and trust are building," Trump tweeted.
I will be speaking to my friend, President Xi of China, this morning at 8:30. The primary topics will be Trade, where good things will happen, and North Korea, where relationships and trust are building.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2018
Kim traveling to China by plane also differed from the travel methods typically employed by his father, late leader Kim Jong Il, who traveled in an armored train for his trips abroad. Kim's father was afraid of flying, but Kim Jong Un appears not to be afflicted with the same panic over air travel. A North Korea's Air Koryo plane was spotted at the airport in Dalian.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/08/kim-jong-un-meets-secretly-in-china-with-xi-jinping-ahead-nuke-talks-with-us.html
Kim Jong Un is making new demands
May 19, 2018
Now that he’s gotten the world’s attention, “Little Rocket Man” has spent a week testing its patience.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un got in a snit over exercises involving nuclear-capable B-52 bombers that the US, Japan and South Korea were planning to conduct over the Korean Peninsula. Kim threatened to cancel ongoing talks with the South.
Days earlier, he said he might pull out from meeting President Trump on June 12 in Singapore. Kim was mad at national security adviser John Bolton’s call for North Korea to completely denuclearize.
It may have been Bolton’s choice of comparison that miffed him. Bolton appeared to extol Libya’s move to denuclearize, though that country’s dictator, Moammar Khadafy, eventually was deposed and killed.
Trump tried to placate Kim by disavowing Bolton’s remarks. As for the training over the Korean Peninsula, the US removed the B-52s from the program.
The antics are crimping what appeared to be remarkable progress toward reducing the North Korean threat to world peace and boosting ties among Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington, DC.
Kim has also barred South Koreans from joining an international group of journalists who are planning to witness the dismantling of a nuclear weapons test site. The move came just a week after promises of “transparency” from Kim.
On Saturday, the diminutive dictator resurrected another issue. He demanded that Seoul return 12 North Korean defectors.
The North’s Red Cross accused South Korean officials of betraying the spirit of a recent inter-Korean summit by not returning the women, who came to the South in 2016 from China.
North Korea said Seoul should “severely punish those involved in the case, send our women citizens to their families without delay and thus show the will to improve North-South ties.”
Seoul insists the women want to stay in the South.
North Korea is notorious for its labor camps, where beatings, rape, torture and punishing conditions are the norm, according to defectors.
The latest demands came on the same day that two North Koreans, including a military officer, were found in the Yellow Sea and defected to South Korea.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/19/kim-jong-un-is-making-new-demands/amp/
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