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BY REBECCA KHEEL - 06/17/18 06:00 AM EDT
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is confronting a daunting task in putting meat on the bones of President Trumps agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ...
... the statement included no specifics on how denuclearization will be achieved, identifying neither verification methods nor a timeline ...
During his travels, Pompeo labored to defend the bare-bones Trump-Kim statement, saying the United States has not abandoned its demand for complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization despite the words verifiable and irreversible not appearing in the document ...
With a State Department that has not really been properly staffed yet, how can the bureaucracy pursue extremely complicated, drawn-out negotiations, Daly said on a conference call. We are now faced with this very acute problem of staffing and whether in fact we have the horses in the functioning bureaucracy that will allow this to go forward if in fact Kim Jong Un is really interested in a gradual negotiation of denuclearization ...
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/392523-trumps-trusted-diplomat-faces-daunting-task-with-north-korea
quartz007
(1,216 posts)and I will not hold my breath.
Squinch
(50,955 posts)quartz007
(1,216 posts)I will put the sarcasm tag next time for your benefit.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)Here's another Free Tip:
Turns out Government is actually pretty fucking useful for some things, innit? Too bad you dumb fuckers didn't realize that until you needed one of Those Things, AFTER you had already taken a wrecking ball to it.
I want peace on the peninsula as much as anybody. But good god I hope this blows up in your faces.