A Channel graphic depicts players from the six party talks in 2008, Song Kim, US Ambassador, Christopher Hill (retired now, tv pundit), for the US, and Kim Gae Kwan (recent remarks about Bolton) and Choi Seon Hee, (recent remarks about Pence), both still in the ruling clique in North Korea. So it was Song Kim and Choi in Panmunjeom yesterday. No one seems to know what is happening there now. General Chol is on the way to New York, presumably for a meeting with Pompeo today. Kim Chang Seon, from the "Seoki shil" is flying to Singapore after his stopover in Beijing. Maybe things didn't go well in Panmunjeom yesterday. There are a lot of players here. Supposedly Song Kim was the US State department's best talent available for negotiations. But the graphic shows that the 2008 negotiations ended in acrimony, "Liar!"
The central issues are still the same. The core issue is still one bundle versus step by step, and the timing of reciprocal measures by the US. VOA conducted some kind of survey among unidentified experts who all agreed ostensibly that North Korea would not give up their nuclear weapons. What moron would give up all their weapons in fell swoop with no reciprocal steps toward peace, security, and lifting of sanctions? It doesn't seem that the negotiations have come off this central dispute. South Korean media are reporting that Song Kim, wants the North to give up all warheads, fissile materials, and ICBMs, first for a piece of paper after its done.
The main problem according to experts is getting this done all at once at a summit. It's just not realistic.
The derisive and sarcastic reports running in the press across the US right now say that a recent CIA estimate concludes that Kim has no intention to denuclearize but may open a burger franchise in Pyongyang to please Trump. This simply reflects the desperation of the militarists and empire builders in the US to preserve their far eastern fiefdoms in the face of a summit that presents a possibility of success.
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