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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2018 17:56:30 GMT
South Korea and the United States are likely to announce their decision to suspend large-scale military exercises this week as a step in the ongoing push to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
Reuters reports that any announcement will include some type of “snapback” provision whereby the exercises would restart if North Korea fails to keep its promise to denuclearize.
According to South Korean news agency Yonhap, the suspension will only affect major joint exercises between the two allies, not more routine military training.
Officials in Seoul and Washington were reportedly surprised when President Trump pledged to end “war games” after his historic summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore last week.
Trump has also previously derided the joint exercises as too costly.
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2018 18:04:07 GMT
The president, in a surprise appearance on 'Fox & Friends' on the White House lawn, reacts to the IG report's accusations against former FBI Director Comey, new China tariffs, his relationship with G7 leaders, immigration, Mueller's Russia investigation, North Korea and more. –The agreement isn’t binding, but it opens for visits both ways, as well as getting the disarmament process underway and putting a damper on the joint military exercises of USA and South Korea, says Progress Party member Christian Tybring-Gjedde. – So this is a nudge to make Donald Trump finish what he’s started, Tybring-Gjedde continues. – It wouldn’t be the first time the peace prize is awarded to someone in the midst of a process, says Per-Willy Amundsen. – We will of course follow the development closely, but the fact that we have come this far is in my opinion worthy of a peace prize.
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Post by Admin on Jul 12, 2018 18:04:16 GMT
President Trump on Thursday said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent him a “very nice note” on future relations between the United States and North Korea, days after the Hermit Kingdom slammed “regrettable” talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s delegation. In the letter dated July 6, Kim thanked Trump for his “energetic and extraordinary efforts” to improve the once hostile relations between the two countries. Trump tweeted the signed letter, saying it was a “very nice note” and that “great progress was being made.”
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Post by Admin on Sept 9, 2018 18:13:54 GMT
President Donald Trump praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un Sunday, ecstatic over his decision to leave nuclear missiles out of its parade marking the 70th anniversary of the republic’s founding.
Taking to Twitter to celebrate, Trump quoted a Fox News statement that North Korea passed on showing the missiles this year to demonstrate to him “its commitment to denuclearize,” something which has been highly suspect at best.
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Post by Admin on Sept 30, 2018 18:17:03 GMT
President Trump told supporters on Saturday night that he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un “fell in love” in the process of setting up the failed peace summit the two leaders attended in Singapore earlier this year. Trump was in Wheeling, West Virginia on Saturday night as part of his ongoing “I’m the Really Greatest President” campaign in the states of Republican candidates this year. Somewhere the middle of his speech, after suggesting the U.S. was about to go to war with the North Korea when he took office, Trump waxed nostalgic about how he and Kim exchanged threats to annihilate each other with nuclear weapons, then claimed it was Kim’s “beautiful letters” that turned everything around. Explained Trump, “We would go back and forth, and then we fell in love. Okay? No really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters. And we fell in love.” The president also quickly said that the media would criticize him for declaring his love for Kim and call it unpresidential. “They’ll say ‘Donald Trump said they fell in love. How horrible! How horrible is that! So unpresidential.’”
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