That is because Mr Kerry, in a recent speech in Michigan, a state that has suffered thousands of job losses since 2001, made a rather unexpected proposal.
"We wonder about the North's motive behind this unexpected proposal, but whatever it might be, we must say we welcome the offer," Ahn Hyoung-hwan, a governing party spokesman in Seoul, told reporters.
On Saturday, it was his wedding – the culmination of a journey that began in spring 2012, with an unexpected proposal to his partner Emily while they were being held in an Israeli detention centre.
The narration chiefly follows Agnes from 1953 into the Watergate hearings, 20 years of good and bad but mostly ordinary events, from illnesses, family troubles and financial worries to an unexpected proposal and buying her own cottage in Maine, with side trips into the lives of relatives and friends.
Ambani stepped in just days after India's largest wireless telecoms operator, Bharti Airtel, was forced to abandon an proposed acquisition for MTN, valuing it at about $50 billion, at the eleventh hour, balking at an unexpected proposal from MTN to change the terms of acquisition to make Bharti MTN's subsidiary rather than the other way around.
Instead, Neil made his first-ever on-screen appearance, and brought with him an unexpected proposal.
In an effort to surprise her and give her an unexpected proposal that still lived up to her own high expectations, Grayson egged her into tee-peeing some teen hoodlum's house.
WASHINGTON -- White House officials say they will "take a hard look" at a Russian offer to push Syria to give up its vast chemical weapons arsenal, a late and unexpected proposal that could provide President Obama a way to avoid a bruising defeat in Congress over use of force.
The inability of Tzipi Livni to form a coalition government in Israel and her subsequent calling of elections has sadly obscured two unexpected peace proposals that emerged in her final weeks of horse-trading.
However, when she tries to end things she receives an unexpected marriage proposal from him, which she accepts.
