[Peace-discuss] So much for peace on the Korean peninsula, however with reunification, it may not be so easy to control our economic sanctions.

[Robert Naiman]

We'll see. Trump is threatening the Iran deal as a pressure tactic to get
the Europeans to adopt a more aggressive stance to Iran on issues outside
the deal. He might follow through on the threat. He might not. He might try
to do something in-between. We will see.





Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 8:46 AM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Look how stable the Iran nuclear deal has been. If Trump gets the Korea
> deal, that's the deal.
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> Yeah, but the problem is that it looks like Trump is going to Dump the
> Iran deal may 12. Basically stabbing the Iranians in the back after Obama
> had stabbed the Libyans in the back. Fab.
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> *From:* Peace-discuss <peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net> *On
> Behalf Of *Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss
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> *To:* Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>
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> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] So much for peace on the Korean peninsula,
> however with reunification, it may not be so easy to control our economic
> sanctions.
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> I wouldn't necessarily read too much into this. The U.S. always goes into
> negotiations with the public story being their maximal demands. It's the
> same way the Obama Administration went into the Iran nuclear talks. Part of
> the theory is: don't concede anything in public until there's a deal. If
> there's no deal people will attack the concession and there's nothing to
> show for it. In the context of a deal, one can say, ok, you didn't like
> this concession, but here's what we got in exchange. And there was no way
> to get that without making that concession. And besides, it's a done deal,
> it's a fait accompli, so complain all ya want, the show is over, this is
> done and we're moving on to the next thing.
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> Look how stable the Iran nuclear deal has been. If Trump gets the Korea
> deal, that's the deal.
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> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
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> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> [image: A missile is launched during a long and medium-range ballistic
> rocket launch drill in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean
> Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on August 30, 2017.]
> Trump to Demand Full Removal of N. Korea's Nuclear, Ballistic Arsenal –
> Bolton
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> © REUTERS / KCNA
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> *MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE* <https://sputniknews.com/military/>
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> 23:08 29.04.2018*Get short URL*
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> <https://sputniknews.com/military/201804291064019723-north-korea-nuclear-ballistic-arsenal/#comments>
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> *MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump intends to seek complete
> elimination of the North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile arsenal
> before making concessions to Pyongyang in lifting economic sanctions from
> the country, US National Security Adviser John Bolton told Fox News on
> Sunday.*
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> When asked whether Trump would make concessions to Kim only after North
> Korea completely destroys its missile and nuclear potential, Bolton
> answered positively.
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> *"Yes, I think that's what denuclearization means. We have very much
> in mind the Libya model [of complete elimination of weapons in question]
> from 2003, 2004 [when the country joined the UN convention on eliminating
> chemical weapons]… The Libyan program was much smaller, but that was
> basically the agreement that we made," he said as quoted by Fox News.*
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> [image: Surveillance]
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> CC0 <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/> / PIXABAY
> <https://pixabay.com/en/hacker-cybercrime-security-network-2077138/>
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> *Little Help From My Friends: US Intel Requests Firms' Aid in Tracking
> Military Objects in N Korea - Reports
> <https://sputniknews.com/military/201804291064018046-us-intelligence-north-korea-nga-military-objects-tracking/>*
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> Bolton also confirmed that the United States would start lifting economic
> sanctions from North Korea only after full denuclearization.
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> Last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that his country would
> stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles
> as well as shut down a nuclear test site. Trump has welcomed the
> announcement calling it a "big progress."
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> On Friday, Trump said that he would hold a meeting with the North Korean
> leader in "the coming weeks," and that the location for the meeting had
> been narrowed down to two or three sites.
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