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Biden Sends A Message To N. Korea That He Isn't A Sucker Like T----
When President Biden was asked what his preconditions were for meeting the North Koreans, he made it clear that he won’t get played as T---- did.
President Biden said:
Well, what I never do is I never make a judgment on what a man or woman is going to do or not do based on what they said. We’ll see if he made any commitment. Then I would meet with him. If there was a commitment on which we met. And the commitment has to be that there is a discussion about his nuclear arsenal. And if it’s merely a means by which, how do we deescalate what they’re doing. And, so, if that were the case, I would not meet unless there was some outline made and my secretary of state would negotiate how we would proceed.
But what I would not do is do what had been done in the recent past. I would not give him all he’s looking for, international recognition as legitimate and, say, give them what allowed him to move in a direction of appearing to be more — how can I say it? More serious about he wasn’t at all serious about. I would have to know specifics. But the idea of never meeting with North Korea, I would make sure that me and my team had met with their counterparts and know exactly what we’re meeting on.
Biden would do the opposite of what T---- did. He would listen to his team, get clear and specific commitments on what the meeting would be about, make N. Korea’s nuclear program a precondition for any conversation, and not give Kim Jong-un the legitimacy that he desperately craves on the world stage. - PoliticusUSA
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President Biden said:
Well, what I never do is I never make a judgment on what a man or woman is going to do or not do based on what they said. We’ll see if he made any commitment. Then I would meet with him. If there was a commitment on which we met. And the commitment has to be that there is a discussion about his nuclear arsenal. And if it’s merely a means by which, how do we deescalate what they’re doing. And, so, if that were the case, I would not meet unless there was some outline made and my secretary of state would negotiate how we would proceed.
But what I would not do is do what had been done in the recent past. I would not give him all he’s looking for, international recognition as legitimate and, say, give them what allowed him to move in a direction of appearing to be more — how can I say it? More serious about he wasn’t at all serious about. I would have to know specifics. But the idea of never meeting with North Korea, I would make sure that me and my team had met with their counterparts and know exactly what we’re meeting on.
Biden would do the opposite of what T---- did. He would listen to his team, get clear and specific commitments on what the meeting would be about, make N. Korea’s nuclear program a precondition for any conversation, and not give Kim Jong-un the legitimacy that he desperately craves on the world stage. - PoliticusUSA
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