Tag: Trump foreign policy

North Korea calls U.S. attitude toward talks ‘gangster-like’ and ‘cancerous,’ rejecting Pompeo’s assessment

The following article by John Hudson and Carol Morello was posted on the Washington Post website July 7, 2018:

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met North Korean officials in Pyongyang on July 6, hoping to “fill in” details on denuclearization. (Reuters)

TOKYO — In a sharp signal that denuclearization negotiations with North Korea will be drawn out and difficult, Pyongyang on Saturday lambasted the U.S. stance as regrettable, gangster-like and cancerous, directly contradicting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s rosy assessment that his two days of talks had been “productive.”

A harsh statement from an unnamed spokesman for the Foreign Ministry was carried on the state-run Korea Central News Agency just hours after Pompeo left Pyongyang on Saturday and told reporters that significant progress had been made “in every element” of what he characterized as “good-faith negotiations.” Pyongyang crushed that appraisal, saying the United States had betrayed the spirit of the June 12 Singapore summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“The U.S. side came up only with its unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization,” the statement said.

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‘It’s Not Positive!’: Dutch Prime Minister Contradicts Trump and Laughs in His Face in the Oval Office

The following article by Cody Fenwick was posted on the AlterNet.org website July 2, 2018:

It was a stunning moment for a White House meeting.

Most foreign leaders have tried to play nice with President Donald Trump in their public meetings, overlooking his flagrant disrespect and rampant breaking of norms in an effort to keep relations with the United States as smooth as possible.

But on Monday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte showed a glimmer of defiance and derision toward the president even while he maintained a smile.

While meeting in front of press in the Oval Office, Rutte openly contradicted Trump and rightly laughed at his comments as the president discussed trade with the European Union. Trump was opining about his ongoing dispute with European leaders regarding his aggressive stance on trade.

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Trump, the Insurgent Breaks with 70 Years of American Foreign Policy

The following article by Mark Lander was posted on the New York Times website December 28, 2017:

President Trump has transformed the world’s view of the United States from an anchor of the international order into something more inward-looking and unpredictable.

A closer look at how President Trump’s unpredictable approach to foreign policy plays out on the global stage. By CHRIS CIRILLO and ROBIN LINDSAY on Publish Date December 28, 2017. Photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times.

WASHINGTON — President Trump was already revved up when he emerged from his limousine to visit NATO’s new headquarters in Brussels last May. He had just met France’s recently elected president, Emmanuel Macron, whom he greeted with a white-knuckle handshake and a complaint that Europeans do not pay their fair share of the alliance’s costs. Continue reading “Trump, the Insurgent Breaks with 70 Years of American Foreign Policy”