North Korea leader Kim invited Trump to Pyongyang in new letter - report

[webfact]

North Korea leader Kim invited Trump to Pyongyang in new letter - report

 

FILE PHOTO: North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump talk in the garden of the Metropole hotel during the second North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi, Vietnam February 28, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter sent in August, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources.

 

The letter, the second Trump received from Kim last month amid stalled denuclearisation talks between the two countries, pre-dated North Korea's latest launch of short-range projectiles a week ago.

 

In the second letter, which was passed to Trump in the third week of August, Kim spoke of his willingness to meet Trump for another summit, one source reportedly told the Joongang Ilbo newspaper.

 

The White House, the U.S. State Department and the North Korean mission to the United Nations all did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump and Kim have met three times since June last year to discuss ways to resolve a crisis over North Korea's missile and nuclear programmes, but substantive progress has been scant.

 

The pair last met at the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas in June and agreed to restart working-level negotiations that had been stalled since an unsuccessful second summit between the two leaders in Vietnam in February.

 

Last week's round of short-range missiles came just hours after Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said North Korea was willing to have "comprehensive discussions" late this month.

 

Trump subsequently said he would be willing to meet Kim at some point later this year.

 

Trump said on Aug. 9 he had received a three-page "very beautiful letter" from Kim and added he could have another meeting with him.

 

(Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Jane Wardell)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-09-16

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[VincentRJ]

Great! The sacking of Bolton might make progress on an agreement more likely. Trump might eventually get his Nobel prize. ????

[ezzra]

1 minute ago, VincentRJ said:

Great! The sacking of Bolton might make progress on an agreement more likely. Trump might eventually get his Nobel prize. ????

Not really, i just don't see him giving up his nukes so easily and so quickly before he milk the most benefits and miles out of it if at all, as without nukes, he's just another tyrant...

[VincentRJ]

5 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Not really, i just don't see him giving up his nukes so easily and so quickly before he milk the most benefits and miles out of it if at all, as without nukes, he's just another tyrant...

He won't give them up 'easily'. It depends on the incentives that are offered. If he's offered certain guarantees that ensure he remains in power, and at the same time is given the opportunity to increase the prosperity of the citizens of North Korea, he might have the intelligence to accept such an offer.

[quandow]

24 minutes ago, VincentRJ said:

He won't give them up 'easily'.

Kim won't give them up 'period." The way the U.S. has jerked them around and gone back on their promises around the world, there will NEVER be trust as long as the orange chosen one (and HE has called HIMSELF that) is in office.

[daoyai]

16 minutes ago, quandow said:

Kim won't give them up 'period." The way the U.S. has jerked them around and gone back on their promises around the world, there will NEVER be trust as long as the orange chosen one (and HE has called HIMSELF that) is in office.

He won't give up his nuke program until his Chinese masters tell him to. Good that Mr. Prez. keeps trying though... he really is trying to bring peace.

[Tug]

Hey Kim make sure you show him that nice n korean hospitality just like you showed to Otto you sob why are we talking to Kim  blockiad that sob and let his people sort him out 

[mikebike]

52 minutes ago, VincentRJ said:

He won't give them up 'easily'. It depends on the incentives that are offered. If he's offered certain guarantees that ensure he remains in power, and at the same time is given the opportunity to increase the prosperity of the citizens of North Korea, he might have the intelligence to accept such an offer.

Of course... trust will be built because the USA has proven under 45 that they will stick with any and all agreements made by previous admins... ????????

[Sujo]

I hope the letter was in crayon with lots of cartoons otherwise he wont read it.

[steven100]

Kim Jong Un is a smart cookie ….  he's just playing with the US.

No way he's going to be seen to be giving in to the likes of America ...

He's just using his run around delay, no chance, tactics on Trump. imo

[bristolboy]

2 hours ago, daoyai said:

He won't give up his nuke program until his Chinese masters tell him to. Good that Mr. Prez. keeps trying though... he really is trying to bring peace.

What he's trying to do is keeping the spin going on his misguided summitry.

[bristolboy]

25 minutes ago, VincentRJ said:

Sounds like some of you guys can identify with Kim Jong Un because you understand him so well. Perhaps you're a bit like him. Right?  ???? ????

More likely that Trump identifies with Kim out of dictator envy.

[Sujo]

43 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

More likely that Trump identifies with Kim out of dictator envy.

Well they are in love.

[Rimmer]

Troll post flame removed

[Srikcir]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter

News of the apparent new letter came as the North’s Foreign Ministry released a statement Monday saying that it expected working-level talks with the U.S. to resume “in the next few weeks,” but warning that “dialogue offers two options: crisis and opportunity.”

• “Only when the threats and obstacles that disturb our institutional security and hinder our development are … removed will we be able to denuclearize,”

Asked whether he would meet Kim again this year, Trump said: “At some point, yes. … Certainly they want to meet, they’d like to meet. I think it’s something that will happen and we’ll see. … I think something can happen.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-invited-trump-visit-pyongyang-report-claims/#.XX9P4GZS_IU

The good news is that such a visit by Trump to North Korea will eclipse the absurd idea of Trump inviting the Taliban to the U.S. for negotiations. 

[mtls2005]

Valentine's Day, 2020? Bring Melania as she knows Chairman Kim so well...

 

 

[Spike1938]

when is this attention hungry fool going to realize that Kim is playing him like a cheap violin. All Kim wants is time to finally develop an a bomb and the missile to carry it. Then the world will have to treat him with relevance. Trump would do better to reinstate the agreement with Iran like the whole rest of the world (aside from Saudi Arabia) wants. 

[PhonThong]

1 hour ago, Spike1938 said:

when is this attention hungry fool going to realize that Kim is playing him like a cheap violin. All Kim wants is time to finally develop an a bomb and the missile to carry it. Then the world will have to treat him with relevance. Trump would do better to reinstate the agreement with Iran like the whole rest of the world (aside from Saudi Arabia) wants. 

Sure, why not? Iran was as committed to the agreement about as much as China is committed to the agreement with Hong Kong.

[habanero]

8 hours ago, quandow said:

Kim won't give them up 'period." The way the U.S. has jerked them around and gone back on their promises around the world, there will NEVER be trust as long as the orange chosen one (and HE has called HIMSELF that) is in office.

Do you realize there is still in a state of war with North Korea? Was it wrong for Churchill to be "jerking" Hitler around?

[1Gringo]

could we convince Kim to keep him?

[wayned]

16 hours ago, VincentRJ said:

He won't give them up 'easily'. It depends on the incentives that are offered. If he's offered certain guarantees that ensure he remains in power, and at the same time is given the opportunity to increase the prosperity of the citizens of North Korea, he might have the intelligence to accept such an offer.

He'll never give the nukes up, he remembers the "Libya Model"  that Bolton reminded him of just before the Singapore Summit!

[bristolboy]

12 hours ago, habanero said:

Do you realize there is still in a state of war with North Korea? Was it wrong for Churchill to be "jerking" Hitler around?

You actually believe that Churchill dealt with Hitler the way Trump is dealing with Kim?

[habanero]

34 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

You actually believe that Churchill dealt with Hitler the way Trump is dealing with Kim?

At least Trump makes the effort. 

[Sujo]

7 minutes ago, habanero said:

At least Trump makes the effort. 

Which in itself is wrong.

[VincentRJ]

5 hours ago, wayned said:

He'll never give the nukes up, he remembers the "Libya Model"  that Bolton reminded him of just before the Singapore Summit!

Bolton has now been sacked, and for good reason. I'm sure Kim will appreciate that.

[Tug]

11 minutes ago, habanero said:

At least Trump makes the effort. 

Are you suggesting that previous administrations dident?im going to give you the benefit of the doubt I don’t think anyone could be that obtuse 

[bristolboy]

14 hours ago, habanero said:

Do you realize there is still in a state of war with North Korea? Was it wrong for Churchill to be "jerking" Hitler around?

 

1 hour ago, habanero said:

At least Trump makes the effort. 

That isn't the point. Churchill denounced Hitler and refused to deal with him. He didn't' jerk Churchill around. Trump is praising Kim and countenancing his transgressions. You may think that's a good idea. But it's not how Churchill dealt with Hitler.