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Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN

Updated 2228 GMT (0628 HKT) March 9, 2018

Washington (CNN)No US president has agreed to sit down with a North Korean leader -- until now.
Just by showing up to see Kim Jong-Un, Donald Trump would give his murderous dynasty what it has always craved -- the prestige and propaganda coup of a meeting of equals with the President of the United States.
That is why the talks represent such a massive gamble for Trump and will subject him to intense pressure to deliver a significant breakthrough in return toward the US goal of dismantling North Korea's nuclear arsenal.

The difficulty of that assignment is why Trump's predecessors balked a breakthrough encounter the President has now agreed to.
Because a meeting with the US President is so valuable to the North Koreans, it's always been the American position that it should be reserved for the moment a deal is on the table -- and deliver a significant return.
The White House is convinced that the pain inflicted by its "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign has so weakened North Korea that it is desperate to negotiate.

They will be meeting at the O.K. Corral.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/09/politics/north-korea-meeting-trump-conditions...


Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump will not meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un unless North Korea takes "concrete and verifiable actions" toward denuclearization, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Friday.
"They have made some major promises. They have made promises to denuclearize. They have made promises to stop nuclear and missile testing," Sanders said. "We're not going to have this meeting take place until we see concrete actions that match the words and the rhetoric of North Korea."
Trump accepts offer to meet Kim Jong Un
Trump accepts offer to meet Kim Jong Un
Sanders' comments Friday cast doubt on the President's much-ballyhooed agreement to meet the North Korean leader, with the White House appearing to impose new conditions that were not apparent a day earlier. The South Korean national security adviser said Kim is "committed to denuclearization," but there was no indication that North Korea had promised to take steps toward denuclearization in order to secure a meeting with the US President.

Instead, Kim only promised to stop nuclear and ballistic missile testing and said he accepted the right of the US and South Korea to move forward with joint military exercises later this year.

I dont think they should meet in China.

China seems to have a vested interest in RM behaving like a Cock.

South Korea would be better.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43353274




    24 minutes ago


President Trump has tweeted that a deal with North Korea is "very much in the making", a day after revealing he had agreed to meet its leader Kim Jong-un.

Earlier, the White House said the meeting would not take place unless Pyongyang took "concrete actions".

US media report that Mr Trump made the decision to meet without consulting key figures in his administration, who are now scrambling to catch up.

No sitting US president has ever met a North Korean leader.

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Mixed messages

Mr Trump stunned observers when he agreed to the summit following an invitation delivered by South Korean envoys.

Confusion mounted when Mr Trump's own press secretary, Sarah Sanders, told reporters that North Korea has "promised to denuclearise". She added: "We're not going to have this meeting take place until we see concrete actions."

The top US diplomat, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, was on his first official trip to Africa when the announcement was made.

He told reporters on Friday the decision to meet Mr Kim was one "the president took himself".

"I spoke to him very early this morning about that decision and we had a very good conversation," Mr Tillerson added.

On Saturday, Mr Tillerson cancelled all his official events in Kenya with aides saying the secretary was "not feeling well after a long couple days working on major issues back home such as North Korea".

South Korean envoys - who recently met with Mr Kim in Pyongyang - have said North Korea is "committed to denuclearisation" as an end goal, but they have not said this would start before a meeting with the US.

Instead, North Korea is understood to have agreed to halt its testing programme as negotiations continue.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43343936




Pick the right place

The speed of the decision leaves significant details up in the air. The location presents an interesting conundrum. Mr Kim has not left North Korea since becoming leader and is unlikely to accept an invitation to Washington. A visit by Mr Trump to Pyongyang would be a considerable PR gift to the North Koreans and is equally unlikely.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 10^th, 2018 at 9:25pm:



' ............ Mr Trump made the decision to meet without consulting key figures in his administration ............ '

I love his way.

Johnnie wrote on Mar 10^th, 2018 at 11:34pm:


But that fat rocket man should get out of North Korea
& live an exile somewhere then the 2 Korea's could unify into one nation.
Everyone would be so much better off.