“This is a big and very positive statement from North Korea. Thank you To Chairman Kim. We will both prove everyone wrong! “
Update: Despite the best efforts of the mainstream media (and the Chinese government) to reinforce the idea that Trump-Kim relations are going nowhere, it appears there has been progress and President Trump has just thanked Kim for his show of good faith at the nation’s military parade… “This is a big and very positive statement from North Korea. Thank you To Chairman Kim. We will both prove everyone wrong! “
North Korea has just staged their parade, celebrating 70th anniversary of founding, without the customary display of nuclear missiles. Theme was peace and economic development. “Experts believe that North Korea cut out the nuclear missiles to show President Trump……
…its commitment to denuclearize.” @FoxNews This is a big and very positive statement from North Korea. Thank you To Chairman Kim. We will both prove everyone wrong! There is nothing like good dialogue from two people that like each other! Much better than before I took office.
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It increasingly looks like the Trump White House is in the driver’s seat when it comes to stalled negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has in the past days and week seemed somewhat desperate to telegraph to Trump that he is fully committed to denuclearization.
The latest such signalling is reported via Reuters early Sunday:
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un told an envoy of Chinese president Xi Jinping that North Korea is upholding the denuclearisation agreement it reached with the United States this year, China’s state broadcaster said.
Chinese parliament chief Li Zhanshu, who is in Pyongyang for celebrations marking 70 years since the founding of North Korea, was told by Kim that North Korea hopes the United States keeps to its side of the agreement, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported.
The Chinese envoy was present in Pyongyang to mark the 70th anniversary of North Korea’s founding, which included the standard sprawling military parade; however conspicuously absent from the parade were North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), thought to be capable of hitting the United States — a clear sign that Kim is taking ongoing diplomatic efforts with the US and South Korea seriously.
