I must have forgotten to close my sarcasm tagClearly you haven’t read Banchan’s posts enough.
I must have forgotten to close my sarcasm tagClearly you haven’t read Banchan’s posts enough.
What stereotype is this? You knew one vietnamese guy in high school (and he wasn't even your friend so you didn't actually know him) what do you know about Korean etiquette?I've thoroughly enjoyed reading your stance on this topic. It's great to hear an opinion that is rooted in fact and not some bullshit, all-encompassing stereotype.
And you think all Asians are Koreans.What stereotype is this? You knew one vietnamese guy in high school (and he wasn't even your friend so you didn't actually know him) what do you know about Korean etiquette?
Nguyen and I were friends. How dare you.What stereotype is this? You knew one vietnamese guy in high school (and he wasn't even your friend so you didn't actually know him) what do you know about Korean etiquette?
Interesting developments.
North Korea cancels talks with South, threatens to call off US talks over military drills - reports
Who was it that said President Dotard would find a way to fuck this up?
Come here and take a (possibly premature/possibly prophetic) bow.
The nuclear test site had been made unusable by the tests... localized mini quakes from subsidence likely destroyed much of the underground facility according to reports I read...
North Korea cancelled a high-level meeting with South Korea early on Wednesday morning and threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over military exercises between Seoul and Washington that Pyongyang has long claimed are invasion rehearsals.
The surprise declaration, which came in a pre-dawn dispatch in North Korea's state media, appears to cool what had been an unusual flurry of outreach from a country that last year conducted a provocative series of weapons tests that had many fearing the region was on the edge of war.
It's still unclear, however, whether the North intends to scuttle all diplomacy or merely wants to gain leverage ahead of the planned June 12 talks between Kim and Trump.
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) called joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises a "provocation" and said Pyongyang had no choice but to suspend the talks.
"This exercise, targeting us, which is being carried out across South Korea, is a flagrant challenge to the Panmunjom Declaration and an intentional military provocation running counter to the positive political development on the Korean Peninsula," the Seoul-based Yonhap news agency quoted KCNA as saying.
KNCA also cast doubt on the Kim-Trump summit.
"The United States will also have to undertake careful deliberations about the fate of the planned North Korea-U.S. summit in light of this provocative military ruckus jointly conducted with the South Korean authorities."
KCNA said the North objected to the two-week "Max Thunder" air combat drills, which began Monday and reportedly involve about 100 aircraft.
Those aircraft, according to KCNA, include nuclear-capable B-52 bombers and stealth F-22 fighter jets, two of the U.S. military assets it has previously said are aimed at launching nuclear strikes on the North.
Annual military drills between Washington and Seoul have long been a major source of contention between the Koreas, and analysts have wondered whether their continuation would hurt the détente that, since an outreach by Kim in January, has replaced the insults and threats of war.
Earlier — and much larger — springtime drills, which Washington and Seoul toned down, went off without the North's typically fiery condemnation or accompanying weapons tests.
In Washington, the U.S. State Department emphasized that Kim had previously indicated he understood the need and purpose of the U.S. continuing its long-planned exercises with South Korea.
State department spokesperson Heather Nauert said the U.S. had not heard anything directly from Pyongyang or Seoul that would change that.
"We will continue to go ahead and plan the meeting," Nauert said.
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Interesting developments.
North Korea cancels talks with South, threatens to call off US talks over military drills - reports
Who was it that said President Dotard would find a way to fuck this up?
Come here and take a (possibly premature/possibly prophetic) bow.
Told u boo.LOL. Paging Squealin' @Banchan in 3..... 2...... 1........
Scrap or not they wont give enough to satisfy US to include North Korea as a trade partner etc. And Kim will "allegedly" start selling weapons to Iran and other hostile places and they will be in the doghouse again.
so what odds would you put on the summit still happening?Scrap or not they wont give enough to satisfy US to include North Korea as a trade partner etc. And Kim will "allegedly" start selling weapons to Iran and other hostile places and they will be in the doghouse again.
Kim has nothing to lose by going. Worst that happens is nothing and he goes back to boasting about continuing the nuclear program but you see he is in a total position of idgaf going into the talks by threatening to cancel versus what some people here seem to think he's going because he's scared. Imo he's going because he's a greedy fat pig and China is economically slowing down. He wants to diversify his economy.so what odds would you put on the summit still happening?
Any chance his nuclear site has already been destroyed?Kim has nothing to lose by going. Worst that happens is nothing and he goes back to boasting about continuing the nuclear program but you see he is in a total position of idgaf going into the talks by threatening to cancel versus what some people here seem to think he's going because he's scared. Imo he's going because he's a greedy fat pig and China is economically slowing down. He wants to diversify his economy.
Imo The summit happening doesn't matter. Kim is not have any genuine intention to denuclearize and he's going to waste everyone's time and money by refusing to allow inspectors to examine their nuclear facilities and stockpiles adequately to satisfy a deal that the US will get on board with. Then Kim will talk about how they were willing to denuclearize but US lied about X and Y and Z so they will restart their program and on and on. He just wants to see what he can get if he were to holding off for a bit. However he feels a sense of entitlement. Even he deals with South Korea he comes from position of "you have to make it worth my while or I continue to defy you" rhetoric I feel will not go far with Trump.
The test site or are you talking about his weapons?Any chance his nuclear site has already been destroyed?