On
Trump - Kim Talks, Pompeo Speaks
At Yokota Air Base in Japan, UN
Marginal
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
May 8 – As the North Korea -
US talks approach, US
President Donald Trump on May
8 while withdrawing from the
Iran Deal announced that Mike
Pompeo was on his way to North
Korea and would be there in an
hour's time. Trump said he was
hopeful the US hostages would
be released. At Yokota Air
Base in Japan, Pompeo said:
"Today what we’re hoping to do
is – there have been
discussions between that day
to now, and we’ve continued to
develop both administratively
and sort of begin to put some
outlines around the substance
of the agenda for the summit
between the President and
Chairman Un. And today
we’re hoping to nail some of
those down to say – to put in
place a framework for a
successful summit between the
two presidents.
There’s a second piece, which
is we also want to make sure
that we’re square about what
it isn’t, what our
expectations are not.
And we are not going to head
back down the path that we
headed down before. We’re not
going to relieve sanctions
until such time as we achieved
our objectives. We are
not going to do this in small
increments, where the world is
essentially coerced into
relieving economic pressure.
That won’t lead to the outcome
that I know Kim Jong-un wants
and I know President Trump is
demanding, so we’re hoping to
set out that set of conditions
that will give them this
opportunity to have a
historic, big change in the
security relationship between
North Korea and the United
States, which will achieve
what the President has tweeted
about and talked about:
complete, verifiable,
irreversible
denuclearization.
That’s the mission set.
We’re trying to set out the
conditions for that
today. And this will be
a part of that process. This
will go on tomorrow. But
we think it’s important. We
think there’s enough that’s
been discussed that it’s
important for me to sit with
senior North Korean leaders
and try and make a big move
towards making sure we’re
prepared for the summit."
Meanwhile Kim Jong Un has
flown to the Chinese city of
Dalian and met Xi Jiping.
Along with a seaside walk, the
talk was of synchronized and
mutual steps with the US,
probably not what Trump wants
to hear. South Korea's Yonhap
and Chosun have both reported
the talks will take place in
Singapore in the June, most
probably the third week in
June. It is noted that Trump
often reverses course - it
could be earlier, in the DMZ
in Panmunjom, or even not at
all, depending on how the
meeting is pre-spun. Either
way, it seems the UN remains
on the sidelines, despite
intermittent claims of
relevance from UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres and
his yet to be seen new head of
the Department of Political
Affairs. Inner City Press,
which previously shared a UN office
with Chosun Ilbo prior to
being evicted
for exposing the UN's bribery
by Ng Lap Seng and now Patrick
Ho, was told she'd start on
May 1. Also as the Trump - Kim
talks approach, the
constellation of those
opposing or seeking to
undercut them extends from
self-styled diplomatic experts
in Washington to decadent and
ill-informed pro-Abe Japanese
scribes in New York. The
former include politicians who
while first claiming diplomacy
was being killed now say it it
moving too fast. The latter
published, in Sankei Shimbun
alone, two separate stories
about the May 3 event at the
UN in which as Inner City
Press reported
amid other news a professor
from Tufts University said
Japan's colonial rule of Korea
was better than that of the
Kims. Of this, Sankei's Mayu
Uetsuka who was not even there
wrote that “Mr. Kaichiro
Iizuka (41), the eldest son of
Mr. Yaeko Taguchi (62) = Same
(22) =, said the mother was
one year old when she was
kidnapped, "I have no memory
of touching my mother ". While
attention is being paid to
nuclear and missile issues, he
said, 'Do not forget the
abduction issue that human
beings are being threatened,
human lives should not be
lighter than nuclear weapons
and missiles.'” Meanwhile the
same Uetsuka, unconcerned with
human lives other than her
own, bragged
about renting an apartment on
the Upper West Side there is
no washing machine in the
room. At first I was looking
for a property with "washing
machine" at the rental site,
but I could not find it in the
desired area in the budget.
New York has many old
buildings, so there are no
washing machines only about
30% of the property. Piping
around the water is not in
place, it is also difficult to
purchase and install a washing
machine yourself. There is a
laundry room in the building
and it will be shared with
neighbors. From friends, I
heard that there are some
Americans who are washing
shoes and they snatch, but
they will have to get used to
it. In the life of the United
States, insensitive dullness
which does not care a little
is trained. The room I live in
is also puzzled by the
appearance of the next
apartment from the window, but
it gradually ceased to matter.
Let's start a jog at Central
Park for a diet.” No, it's
time to be fired, putting out
for old reports, throwing away
real information for a
self-promoting bartender
typist, on May 8 typing quotes
about Bosnia certain not to be
used: Kevin Pinner, claiming
he “named products, generated
slogans and ideas for
marketing campaigns” for
Chinavision. Maybe that's why
Sankei had to assign a second
scribe to that May 3
event, Masashi Nakamura.
Oh for the days of Jun
Kurosawa, who at least pursued
the attempted censorship of Mr
Tatsuya Kato. The new team,
they are censors, irrelevant
and inept. We will have more
on this.
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