{"id":398064,"date":"2019-03-05T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/it-was-kim-that-walked-away-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-03-05T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T11:26:12","slug":"it-was-kim-that-walked-away-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/it-was-kim-that-walked-away-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was Kim That Walked Away \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">There are two sides to the story about why the second North Korea peace summit fell apart last week, writes Patrick Lawrence.<span id=\"more-33896\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/tag\/patrick-lawrence\/\">By <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Patrick Lawrence<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><em>Special to Consortium News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Patrick-S-freeport-12-2012-Color-No-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Patrick-S-freeport-12-2012-Color-No-3-1-130x130.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-29528\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-29528\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Patrick-S-freeport-12-2012-Color-No-3-1-130x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>T<\/strong><\/span>he abrupt and unexpected failure of the second Trump\u2013Kim summit last week raises many questions. Let\u2019s get one out of the way before addressing the others: No, the collapse of talks between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, does not scuttle the most promising chance for peace on the Korean Peninsula since the 1953 signing of the armistice ending the Korean War. There is more to come. This was plain within hours of the summit\u2019s end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">At this point it\u2019s still difficult to discern even what transpired between the two leaders. The U.S. and North Korean accounts of the proceedings in Hanoi are widely at variance on key points. With history in view, it is very likely that the North Korean version comes closer to the truth than what the Trump administration is putting out and what the U.S. press is dutifully reporting.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33897\" style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/32296565547_528a96b086_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/32296565547_528a96b086_o.jpg\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33897\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33897\" alt=\"Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds news conference after summit JW Marriott Hotel, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33897\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33897\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/32296565547_528a96b086_o.jpg\" alt=\"Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds news conference after summit JW Marriott Hotel, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-33897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hold news conference after summit on Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">(White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">By Trump\u2019s account, Kim agreed to dismantle his most important nuclear production facility, at Yongbyon, roughly 60 miles north of Pyongyang. In exchange, Kim asked for all sanctions now in force against North Korea\u2014some passed at the UN, others imposed by Washington alone\u2014to be lifted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Here is Trump talking to correspondents after the bust-up Thursday morning:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u201cBasically, they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn\u2019t do that. They were willing to de-nuke a large portion of the areas that we wanted, but we couldn\u2019t give up all the sanctions for that\u2026. They wanted sanctions lifted but they weren\u2019t willing to do an area we wanted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The \u201clarge portion\u201d Trump mentioned is Yongbyon: There is no dispute about this. Pyongyang has shut down the reactor at Yongbyon twice in the past, in 1994 and in 2007. In 2008 Kim Jong-il, the reigning Kim\u2019s father, ordered the cooling tower at Yongbyon demolished\u2014a televised event many readers will remember&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/03\/04\/patrick-lawrence-it-was-kim-that-walked-away\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two sides to the story about why the second North Korea peace summit fell apart last week, writes Patrick Lawrence. By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News The abrupt and unexpected failure of the second Trump\u2013Kim summit last week raises many questions. Let\u2019s get one out of the way before addressing the others: No, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}