AP Sides with North Koreans on Sanctions Claim
The AP is taking the side of the North Koreans in regards to their sanctions demands:
President Donald Trump said he walked away from his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because Kim demanded the U.S. lift all of its sanctions, a claim that North Korea’s delegation called a rare news conference in the middle of the night to deny.
So who’s telling the truth? In this case, it seems that the North Koreans are. And it’s a demand they have been pushing for weeks in lower-level talks. (…….)The U.N. Security Council has imposed nearly a dozen resolutions targeting North Korea, making it one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world. So Kim was indeed seeking a lot of relief — including the lifting of bans on everything from trade in metals, raw materials, luxury goods, seafood, coal exports, refined petroleum imports, raw petroleum imports.
Associated Press
But Kim wasn’t looking for the lifting of sanctions on armaments. Those were imposed earlier, from 2006, when the North conducted its first nuclear test.
For Pyongyang, that’s a key difference.
I think it is more accurate to say that the North Koreans are trying to get a lifting of all the sanctions that matter. Lifting the sanctions they want would be a huge economic boon to the Kim regime without fully denuclearizing. That money would all the regime to further modernize their military and illicit weapons programs.
I think it’s safe to say if Trump cured cancer the AP would report on all the oncologists he put out of business.
The AP is on the wrong side of history. Again. You’d think they would take more pride in doing a good job:
1. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-calderone/ap-boston-marathon-report_b_3134226.html
2. https://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12630586/ap-response-clinton-foundation
3. https://www.thedailybeast.com/homeland-security-on-aps-national-guard-absolutely-incorrect
AP wants to be on the right side of Fatty’s wrath for their Pyongyang bureau.
AP lying, like all fake news.
If North Korea and Donald Trump both always lie to the press, and you plug in a metric where you take only times North Korea lies to the American press, the algorithm will weight Donald Trump higher. I guess that’s the (associated press) eporter’s method because it doesn’t write WHY it believes Pyongyang would be MORE truthful. Or maybe they don’t read North Korean media.
And then I read the entire article after commenting and saw they cite an anonymous state department source