North Korea will get relief from international sanctions only when it has shown irreversible moves toward de-nuclearization, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said ahead of a summit next week between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Speaking Sunday in Singapore at the start of a meeting with the defense ministers of South Korea and Japan, Mattis warned that “we can anticipate at best a bumpy road to the negotiations."
“As defense ministers we must maintain a strong, collaborative defensive stance so we enable our diplomats to negotiate from a calm position of strength in this critical time,” Mattis said. The ministers were in Singapore for the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, which brings together global defense officials.
He added that all United Nations Security Council resolutions on the regime must stay in place. “North Korea will receive relief only when it demonstrates verifiable and irreversible steps to de-nuclearization,” Mattis said.
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They must make themselves “defenseless”
ReplyDeleteIncapable of resisting Western Hegemony
204-As opposed to staying dirt poor? With less than 500 miles of paved roads? With nothing to eat?
ReplyDeleteYou don't actually think the West cares about the NK people, do you?
ReplyDeleteLOL
2:04 is on target.
Asset strip the country for all of its natural resources.
Enslave the people