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muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 07:15 AM Jun 2018

North Korea sanctions could be lifted after summit, says China

Source: The Guardian

China’s foreign ministry has said the international community could consider lifting economic sanctions on North Korea after the agreement signed by Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump in Singapore, according to Reuters.

The comment by Chinese officials suggests the US policy of “maximum pressure” on Pyongyang is already showing signs of cracking.

China represents more than 90% of North Korea’s trade and is in a position to provide much-needed relief for the isolated regime.

There are already reports that Kim’s charm offensive has led China to relax restrictions on trade with North Korea, violating United Nations sanctions.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/north-korea-sanctions-may-be-lifted-after-summit-says-china

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North Korea sanctions could be lifted after summit, says China (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2018 OP
And that is just the end of the beginning. pangaia Jun 2018 #1
1 rule: dont give anything to NK until they've given everything. 7962 Jun 2018 #2
No more war games or sanctions BeyondGeography Jun 2018 #3
Xi and Kim choreographed this meeting to perfection cerebrate2006 Jun 2018 #4
Hell yes they want us out workinclasszero Jun 2018 #7
THIS BumRushDaShow Jun 2018 #10
And Kim Jong-un workinclasszero Jun 2018 #5
Makes you wonder duforsure Jun 2018 #6
Yeah that will be coming soon no doubt workinclasszero Jun 2018 #9
North Korea has a mass of disciplined low wage labor!!! you betcha.. Civic Justice Jun 2018 #8
It was all a plot to lift sanctions. Nitram Jun 2018 #11
 

7962

(11,841 posts)
2. 1 rule: dont give anything to NK until they've given everything.
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 07:36 AM
Jun 2018

NK cannot be trusted. At all. Ask Pres Bush & Pres Clinton.

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
3. No more war games or sanctions
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 07:41 AM
Jun 2018

We get lip service on nukes. Art of the deal, baby!

Of course, this does free us up for our coming war with Canada.

cerebrate2006

(32 posts)
4. Xi and Kim choreographed this meeting to perfection
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 07:44 AM
Jun 2018

Get Donald to commit to the summit and allow him to blow his own horn about how great it was. Then use his own words to reduce the sanctions and gradually remove the US presence in SK China and NK are playing the long game while Don the Con is just being played

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
7. Hell yes they want us out
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 07:58 AM
Jun 2018

They are building up those islands over there with military forces.

Doesn't South Korea see whats going on? Trump is selling them out for Chinese cash.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
5. And Kim Jong-un
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 07:50 AM
Jun 2018

has not given up one damn thing.

I think Dump and the US just got taken to the cleaners.

I wonder if this was part of the bribe China gave to Trump?

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
6. Makes you wonder
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 07:55 AM
Jun 2018

After giving away everything, removing troops soon, no concessions from Kim, and sanctions lifted without removing all weapons is the worst possible deal ever made . But then again how long before we find out he's got a deal to build there, and probably to make his products there for him and his daughter to once again use his office to profit from for himself and is family. A huge fraud again on the American people has been done.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
9. Yeah that will be coming soon no doubt
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 08:01 AM
Jun 2018

Dump will build a massive motel complex and golf course and Ivanka gets exclusive rights for her garbage.

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
8. North Korea has a mass of disciplined low wage labor!!! you betcha..
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 07:59 AM
Jun 2018

Last edited Tue Jun 12, 2018, 10:07 AM - Edit history (4)

We can crack jokes and what ever else that spins the wind in the mind, America, and China among others want access to that cheap labor. China has an aging population, and America has a weak industrial sector and a crumbling infrastructure among other challenges including $20+ TRILLION OF DEBT.. It has always sought Cheap Labor, which is why it carries such debt and the population is still struggling as a basically "slave wage" society; that do not earn enough to even keep the lawn cut, (if they have a lawn).... The big money industrialist, want that cheap labor, so they can flood America with more cheap goods to go along with the ultra low wages that Republican are Desperate to keep in place.
Trump is "against minimum wage hikes", and want to turn young people into apprentices (indentured servants), and to support that remaining, it need low wage labor on foreign soil to produce low cost low quality goods, to appease the people in this low wage society.

It's the same game as before... and the continuing result is as it has been, a declining infrastructure, no environmental concerns except where the wealthy live, and a challenged infrastructure, because the wealthy fly where-ever they want to go. The only way we get infrastructure projects, is if the "wealthy can gain a profit from repairing it"... which means "privatization of anything that can be privatized. That means, 'more low wage job"... while the wealthy become enriched where they can function exactly as they did during the Confederacy, with Antebellum styled race and class divisions.

But, too many Americans don't want the truth, and too many others have no idea or historical education to know and see the truths, and others are unconcerned.

Some are more worried about the shape of their butt, what kind of implants they can get, and still others are worried about who can sleep with the other and one another. We have a society tattooed up, and trying to show as much skin in as many ways as they can, while being caught up in "social media drama".... until everything is about "external imagery", of who's got some designer label on clothing, or who can live in a over priced house they can't afford, and how they can flood their kids with gadgets and caricature costume imagery. While we have Right Wing Evangelicals, pushing and building the same Religious Based system of racism that was dominant in the Antebellum South during the height of the Confederacy.

We have broken down Rural Communities, that is driven to Opioid's in any form they can get it, while every concoction of mind altering stimulate is promoted in the younger generation. In the cities, it nothing more than 'some form of sales clerk job, to ensure the movement of foreign goods is marketed to the masses. Industry convinced people, mainly poor whites to stand behind "union busting" so the wage remains low and the worker has no voice.... and society functions by living on 'credit debt", while the wealthy monthly collect their profits.

An under educated and uneducated society is easy to contain and even more easy to manipulate with drama. Sadly, many have no idea to know how under educated they are, and others have no idea of how uneducated they are. The drama spins ensure they remain as being such. Sell them a new phone every 6 -9 months and give them access to social media drama, and they are consumed, into a blindness, while they elate themselves with egotism's of picture taking, and playing games. Many today, can't even see where they are walking, because their head are bent down fixated on the screen of a phone, the can sit in a room as a family or friends, and the conduct is, every 20 seconds they have to look at their phone. They claim to be connected, but its chatter produces nothing, but keeps them distracted on even how to appreciate the natural nature of themselves, or develop a skill or increase the historical knowledge, or even the knowledge available today to help them learn how to become a contributor.

SO....

One can be assured, that the process will continue and we will see the rise of a New Low Wage Industrial System... in what is N. Korea, and they will do just as China has done, which is: over time they will elevate their peoples economic conditions and improve their landscape and infrastructure; and we likely will still be spinning around in racial stupidity among the American citizen population, and pretending we are better than the people in other nations. White they move on and build, uplift their people and advance their nation. a decade from now, we will still have the mass ignorance of racism, and worship of the wealthy, and still pushing to defeat each other out of racism and envy, and resentment at the mere thought of economic equilibrium among american society persons.
This is the Sadness that is an American Tragedy!!!!

S. Korea has the advanced tech, they have a focused people and their society has an integrity that keeps their environment growing... they don't have a overwhelming racial issue, and their government invest in their societies infrastructure and work to ensure their industry is strong and stable. They don't sell off every industry, for the sake of short term profits, and their general population has a higher standard of living within their society. They may not have the high Trillion Dollar Spin that America has, but their money cycles to improve the lives of their people and the landscape of their nation.
( "The GDP per Capita in South Korea is equivalent to 202 percent of the world's average. GDP per capita in South Korea averaged 9760.69 USD from 1960 until 2016, reaching an all time high of 25458.90 USD in 2016 and a record low of 944.30 USD in 1960. " )
Samsung makes the best phones on the market, their Auto is highly valued as a go to vehicle and many other things that tell us, that the U.S. with its turn over of $18-19 Trillion a year, DOES NOT trickle into the pockets of the people, and we have a series of cities on the edge of bankruptcy, while the wealthy now make money at 10's and 100's of millions and billions as profit, while the average life of the average America is still at poverty wage levels, and cannot live to the fictionalized standard that is claimed as the American Living Standards, We can't take care of our elderly and we can't invest to educate our young... We are an indentured people driven by fiction as we live on "credit debt", which makes us a mass of Indentured Servants.

Yet, we seem to not understand.... enough to change our ways of thinking.

Its Wake-Up Time in America and time for a dedication to educating our society, and moving past the ignorance of the racism that has made this nation into an indentured people driven by fiction as we live on "credit debt".

When Industry moves to N. Korea, they will become resourceful and they will become and be wise with how they use their increased incomes, as they get to learn from the misuse that is so wide spread in a society like America and Other Western Societies that no longer can save and carries a high debt load of credit debt. They waste not because they have excess, but because they chase the imagery and fiction the media depicts, which is only available to the well to do and wealthy, who have the high income and disposable levels of income.

We have people killing themselves and their families, when they can't and don't have the money to live the fiction, and many can't figure out who they are as individuals, because the media gives them continual imagery to keep them chasing an illusion until they don't learn how to be themselves, except to base it on, body shape, gadgets and costumes, while being obsessed with sexual pursuits, while lying and denying such truth even in themselves as that drive dominates their walking hours.

We .... should not come to envy any growth in N. Korea, we should ourselves learn how to become a people, who relearns how to respect ourselves as human beings, beyond the external imagery and what material possession we pursue. We should become a people who has a burning passion for learning our own history, and learning how to become people who have passion in the will to be skilled and capable contributors to society.

None of that will happen as long as we continue to have a "short attention span".


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