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Report: the Trump administration is having secret talks with North Korea

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The Unites States does not negotiate with terrorists, it’s been a mainstay of US diplomacy since Reagan! 

Yes POTUS Barry’s prisoner exchange for Bergdahl was wrong but as generations pass it seems and the marque name changes that diplomacy becomes altered. How will people feel if POTUS Donnie stops wagging the dog and negotiates a prisoner exchange to help diffuse a situation that he and ‘lil Kim Jong U’s egos have escalated – PB/TK

Report: the Trump administration is having secret talks with North Korea – By Zeeshan Aleem / Aug 11 2017

Publicly, President Trump has been threatening North Korea with “fire and fury” and boasting that “military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded.” Behind the scenes, though, his administration has been involved in covert communications with Pyongyang that could help resolve the crisis.

According to the Associated Press, Joseph Yun, the State Department envoy for North Korea policy, and Pak Song Il, a senior diplomat from North Korea’s United Nations embassy, have been in regular contact for months.

The US and North Korea don’t have formal diplomatic ties or any official lines of communication between their governments.

We already knew that there had been secret talks while the two countries negotiated the release of Otto Warmbier, the imprisoned American student who died days after his release from North Korea in June. But it wasn’t clear if they had continued talking, or if those discussions went beyond the fate of American detainees.

According to the AP report, they have. The backchannel communications, which began shortly after Trump’s negotiation, have carried on to the present day and could be a foundation for more serious negotiation, including on North Korea’s nuclear weapons,” according to the AP. The news service said the information came from current US government officials.

Continue to vox.com article: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/11/16135066/trump-north-korea-backchannel-secret-talks

 

 

 

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