Trump Says North Korea Envoys to Deliver Him a Letter from Kim Jong-un

We should be very careful with NK. They will cheat, I think. There should be very little breather from sanctions until NK is fully and verifiably de-nuclearized. It should be in their interest to come clean as soon as possible. Also, continued monitoring is needed to keep their hands clean!

Very interesting negotiations. Who knew that diplomats could move so quickly if you goosed them? Like Trump's Asian adviser Matthew Pottinger said last week, June 12 will come in like 10 minutes. That's in diplomat's time. I'm glad to see Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un, and Moon Jae-in all moving ahead quickly to see what, if anything, can be done. Sure, it is possible that no deal will be reached, but it seems clear that the North Koreans want one. We didn't ask for the meeting -- they did. I'm tired of all these stuffed shirts who say things like "neither side means the same thing when they say denuclearize" or "a deal needs to be made before the summit is held". Donald Trump is an experienced negotiator who has done this at the highest level for decades. Sit back and watch an artist at work.

Trump thinks he is the top dog in a "negotiation". He has absolutely no clue, and whether or not his diplomatic envoys are more enlightened makes little difference, as he needs to maintain the illusion that HE is the only one who can reign in North Korea. Personally, I don't think he could stay on script in a face-to-face meeting, and his chest-thumping-my-button-is-bigger-than-your-button tendencies will take over and could trigger an even more disastrous outcome. I hope he cowards out of this meeting, and I don't even care what his self-serving excuse would be. He does not understand the bigger picture of any of his actions, and the issue of N. Korea is best left to a more educated slate of American diplomats and governing officials, as well as our difficulties with Russia. We are being played by foreign governments, and the ego of our "leader".

The article refers to Russia and a "major American adversary". I just arrived from outer space and would like someone to kindly explain to me why the US and Russia are adversaries.

So, the bully-in-chief throws his childish tantrum (as usual) and cancelled the summit and now is scrambling to recover from his moronic behavior. Ho hum. Business as usual.

Given the history of the US attacking countries that give up their WMD, (Iraq, Libya) N. Korea would be insane to give them up without a non-aggression agreement with the US and the removal of US troops from S. Korea. Note also that sanctions are an act of war. Who is the aggressor?

Someone better call Ebay and get those commemorative medals back.

Imagine the republican response if a democrat promised this murderous criminal gang that they can be "very rich" if they play along with a "denuclearization" theater.

I consider America's "maximal pressure" tactics - that sometimes result in hundreds of thousands of deaths - criminal. I am glad that there are some countries that provide some counterweight.

Although it sounds unrealistic and crazy and definitely surreal, the only practical solution to this crisis is to make Kim Chungeun let a sizable United States forces station in Pyoungyang, the capital of Nroth Korea, indefinitely. 1. There is no way for the United States could find out all the North Korean nuclear weapons. That is, regardless of the historical summit, President Trump can never root out the doubt that North Korea might hide some of them somewhere. However, if the United States could deploy its forces in North Korea, she could hinder the North Korean urge to position the weapons openly. 2. North Korea also will be benefited, because the deployment could mean symbolically and practically that the United States guarantees the safety of the regime. 3. The United States will be benefited also, because she could expand her sphere of influence to the North Korea. 4. Money is no problem at all, because South Korea is ready to burden any cost to bring peace to the Korean peninsula. The iota of the American Tax dollar will never be spent. 5. Japan is also benefited, because the deployment will reduce the uncertainty to her security. 6. The only losers are China and Russia, more likely China of the two, about which everybody will not be sorry. 7. Including Trump, every concerned people will be awarded with the Nobel Prize. Trump will be reelected. 8. The esteem for the United States forces, inside and outside, will be enhanced greatly.

The truly historic moment which we are experiencing right now is how quickly Trump is making the US irrelevant on the world stage. As he alienates our allies we will continue to lose leverage and Russian and China will surge ahead. The only thing that Trump is making great again is his bottom line.

It appears, that the focus has shifted from trying to achieve some tangible results to a desperate attempt to keep the summit alive, where the mere fact of a meeting and the accompanying photo-op will be hailed, as a 'success'. The reality is, that the US' role in all this is becoming more and more inconsequential. The 2 Korean leaders are seeing eye-to-eye already, China and now Russia are also pitching in and the United States is left to play the role of an intransigent outsider still preaching 'sanctions' and 'maximum pressure', like the bully in a kindergarten sandbox not allowed to play anymore.

Russia casts a dark shadow over much these days. Their persistence in propping up their client state with Assad and our support of the Syrian Dictator's enemies is helping to fodder a new Cold War. They're going to keep that port on the Mediterranean no matter what. Russia is behaving like an enemy with their intense espionage against us. The Syrian War is now threatening to spread into a wider conflict. We're about one inch from Israeli and Russian fighter jets in a dog fight. Border incursions and sorties have already taken place. As for the Korean Summit? Kim Jong Un is a con man with a plan. A valid de-nuclearization is about as likely as hell freezing over. South Africa is the only nation I can name that developed atomic bombs and then gave them up.

“Russia earns an estimated $120 million a year by seizing the wages of construction workers employed in Russia, along its border with the North, according to the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, a group in Seoul.” Why would Russia seize the wages of North Korean workers? This must be the way North Korea repays Russia for the rocket engines that have advanced their missile development. Here again the Russians prove to be very capable political ministers.

Watch Trump carefully considering the Russians. He well do Putin's bidding at the end of the day. His participation in this very doubtful summit could very easily be terminated. The puppet Trump is still having his strings pulled as usual by his hero and role model Vladimir.

This should be no surprise. Putin put Trump into the office of President of the United States. Until we find a way to end Trump's presidency, and then effect an open democratic way of putting another person into the office of President, Russia will continue to control us. The two parties, the Democrats and the Republicans must work together right away to put another person into office as President and also another person as Vice President. Then both parties and the new President and Vice president must help us, The American People, work cooperatively. We cannot let the unnecessarily and obscenely rich and otherwise wealthy control us. the American People.

Quixotic Kim Jong-un isn't easily to deal with. He's a known assassin who savagely executed his mother's brother; and hired two Indonesian and Vietnamese women to poison his half-brother at the Kula Lumpur airport. What does he want? What do his party-oriented allies want? Let's forget about the Nobel Prize, the question should be asked is how far will he exploit Trump's internal crisis and possible impeachment and/or resignation? That's not mention Trump's legal battles in other lawsuits regarding NDAs, hush money, sexual assaults on Ms Summer Zervos, and the Russian connections via the Cambridge Analytica , or the indicted oligarchs who, among the other things, paid the Trumps dozens of millions dollars for Miss Universe Pageant, real estate, inauguration donations, etc.

If Trump and his gang are having this much trouble scheduling this meeting, do we really expect any significant results? Trump's gang didn't do their homework, but off they went to class, and now North Korea is going to school them. Sad!

Pompeo and Kim are probably conspiring how to steal the midterm elections. This is the guy who hacked Sony Pictures.

Donald Trump would find it hard to identify North Korea on an unmarked world map. He might even find it difficult on a well marked map of the world. If the talks with North Korea prove successful the Secretary of State should get the Nobel Prize with Kim Jung Un. ( That will have Trump climbing the walls of the Oval Office.)

President Trump's negotiating strategy is to do his dirty laundry in public. Shame on him.

The fact that discussions and intentions to negotiate are extant is extraordinary, given the history of relations between the U.S. and North Korea. One thing U.S. diplomats in the past have agreed upon with regard to another country, Iran, is the helpful fact that,"...you could always talk to them.", implying that both meetings and intentions to negotiate signify viable possibilities. Just what it is that the POTUS means when he says various things vis a vis North Korea is uncertain, and at this stage, it could not be otherwise. Ergo, one must agree with the headline to this article and refer to the situation as "progressing". If that means a proclivity towards attempting to achieve nuclear disarmament in the Korean Peninsula, then why not have the U.N. sponsored Committee on Disarmament develop a similar inclination as regards the nuclear disarmament between India and Pakistan, concurrent with the effort in Korea, with the end in view of bringing either pairs of nuclear powers or the entire list of nuclear powered countries to the disarmament negotiating table in an effort to safeguard the whole world? It seems high time, to me, at least.

A joke - two world rulers with absolutely no concern for the citizens of their country engaging in a public relations spectacle with an eye towards reaching an "agreement" that only a total fool would think either ever intends to comply with. A quick thought on the return letter - should it be addressed as "Dear Dear Leader" or just "Dear Leader?"

So, when our president isn't pandering to violent dictators, he's alienating our long-time democratic allies. I can't even imagine the bribe amount of money growing in that offshore account. Awake me from this nightmare.

"But the president said negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang 'are in good hands.'" Maybe, but it's more likely that these negotiations are in reckless hands. Mr. Trump knows how to cheat people in business as he makes deals or fails to live up to them. He has no experience and even less talent at diplomacy. I hope he succeeds in his endeavor. The world would be a safer place if North Korea agrees to abandon its nuclear weapons. I do not think it will happen, though.

What a shame…. Thanks of Trump he has made the illegitimate North Korean dictator who kills his own people and has threatened nuking his neighbors and United States an international celebrity. What a change... due to Trump’s desperation to have summit and meet him.. you have world powers like China and Russia courting him and US diplomats dancing to his tunes.. Any guess who is winning here... I guess Trump has a new penpal..

I don’t care how much money I gotta spend Ain’t gonna give up my nukes in the end My baby, he wrote me a letter

This all ties in to the Russians and China. Xi Jinping and Putin each want to be at the top of the world's social order. China will be at the top of the economic order in less than a decade. They aren't going anywhere and neither are their ideologies. Trump is a short term "bonanza" for the two world leaders. The United States has handed it's role in the world to Russia and China and they will rip at the carcass like a pack of wolves.

The real story here is that Trump's antics have given Russia incentive to further increase Kim's stature as a nuclear power. Putin strides to the batter's box. Kim wins. Russia sets another hook on its Pacific frontier. China shifts uncomfortably. South Korea sees another option. The USA sucks its thumb...what could go wrong?

Did Mr. Trump say if he'd have the patience to read the whole thing?

The United states is punishing the poor and starving people of North Korea with sanctions on their country because they have about 60 weapons of mass destruction. The world should have sanctions on the U.S.A. because we have about 5000 weapons of mass destruction and we are the only country in the world that has already used two of them on civilians. If the subject is sanctions, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander".

The North Koreans will stroke Trump's enormous ego in the letter and he will agree to meet. The man is not difficult to figure out and the North Koreans truly want to be acknowledged as a nuclear state.

Let's hope that the NK delegate pays proper homage at the throne of Trump lest this poorly planned summit crash and burn again. Scary to think of our president going to such a meeting armed only with his ego and willingness to make a deal no matter the cost to the US and its allies

This is entirely Pompeos' Show. And THAT is a good thing. Trump is going along, for now, in hopes of snagging that Nobel Prize. Fine. Obama got one first. Just saying.

Quite a transformation in relationship between the Koreas and with the US compared to last year and all the previous years. The peace moves and communication through diplomatic channels with each other in a civilized manner is always better than testing ICBMs.

It is abundantly clear that when North and South Korea initiate serious steps toward peace and reconciliation on the Korean peninsula, powerful outside interests, especially the U.S., are destined to follow their lead. Even in the face of 72 years of U.S. occupation of South Korea, neither U.S guns nor dollars can dictate Korea's future when its leadership and people assert their independence and determine to resolve their differences on their own terms.

«The morning tweet struck a more optimistic note than the one Mr. Pompeo posted Wednesday night, in which he reiterated that “we are committed to the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”» So, as I understand it, are Messrs, Kim and Moon (cf the Panmunjom Declaration). So long as Mr Pompeo and his principal understand that such denuclearisation must apply both north and south of the DMZ, i e, that all nuclear-weapons systems in these territories must be removed and a ban placed on their redeployment, then the Kim-Trump summit should go swimmingly.... Henri

Who else would “throw together” a meeting with a potential world wide terrorist nation but Donald Trump and his buddies?

I hope we are not going to be "played" again !!

Wouldn't it be funny if the only word in the letter was, "Bazinga!"?

Am I supposed to be waiting breathlessly?

I assume he'll have someone read it to him. He'll never comprehend it otherwise. Maybe it'll have picture with it. A Dick and Jane and Spot book would tax Trump.

Wow! We should all be grateful! Donald Trump has made the US lose all the respectful allies we’ve had for decades and now made friends with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. Our family and friend deceased veterans, which we just dedicated Memorial Day to, are rolling in their sacred graves. I work at a nursing home/rehab center and provided the residents and their families with a Memorial Day service on Monday. These elders are not happy campers by any means. They feel betrayed on so many levels. And they have been betrayed. They sing “God Bless America” with tears for our country today and verbally express their grief and concern, too. Meanwhile the Republicans in Congress do nothing.

I disagree with POTUS in so many ways that I can’t possibly name the whole list of things for that matter. But I agree with POTUS in dealing with North Korea. Fanciful dialogue is much better than the potential war which was real just last year. Even the US surgical strike carries the risk of dying Koreans in the hundreds of thousand. North Koreans may disregard an agreement even though they say otherwise at this time. However this is the farthest point that any North Korean leader has reached. We can give this situation a benefit of doubt. This is far better situation than the war monger-ring of the last year.