What he wants is this: $$$$$$$$$$$$
In sum:
“Kim wants the kind of deal obama gave to Iran- all carrots and no stick; billions in cash delivered in the middle of the night, with front-loaded bargains and lifting of sanctions.”
A very reasonable assumption.
I would add that that is what China wants for NK from this also.
Give him a case of bark flavored Ramen noodles.
What he wants is buxom blonde women.
“What Kim Jong Un really wants”
I dunno? A split skull?
This regime tortured to death an American college student tourist for SWIPING a KIM campaign poster!!!
North Korea dwells in an alternate reality - and now has perhaps 60 nuclear weapons
Geez people
Papa T- Rex or even Daddy Xi or Daddy Putin talking this guy down to living like a good neighbor ? Now that he can kill millions around the planet in a tantrum ?
A real haircut?
This guy does not care about or value human life, and people like that (correct me if I’m wrong) tend to not even value their own, ultimately. They want to go out in a “blaze of glory” if they do not get what they want. What he wants is our destruction and “glory.” If he is unable to achieve these things, and it appears they are linked, I believe he may opt for going out in a blaze (of glory) rather than failing and ending up being brought down to reality by having to answer for his and his family’s crimes against humanity. What he “wants” is not possible because he is insatiable. What he doesn’t want might be a way to motivate him (???)
I wonder if there isn’t racism in the mix with this guy too.
He REALLY wants Obama back, or someone very much like him, so he can demand pallets of money.
The left was hoping for another round of “shock and aw shucks”.
NK believes that SK is very interested in having the Winter Olympics go well. And that they will pay NK to behave for 6 moths in return for concessions that could include money and resources.
SK would not be in favor of any strategy from the US that would hurt the changes of the Olympics going well. So Trump can say whatever he wants. SK will undercut him for the next 6 months.
Trump should ignore NK for 6 months. If the rhetoric and missile testing continues for that time it will give him a bigger argument afterwards. And he will not have the support of SK until then.
The worse thing that NK could do in 6 months is start a war. With everybody’s Olympic Teams in Seoul, including teams from Russia, China and the US. The US could then respond with everyone’s support. But if the US engages in talks, the north has shown a history of lying and using the talks to delay and extract money from the US.
Let NK over play their hand. Let them make the first move. Let them send a rocket to Guam or Japan. We can take a hit. Then we can respond with fire and fury. With most of the world understanding and supporting our efforts.
Obviously we should have a thousand cruise missiles trained on every target in NK. And we should be ready to go when ever need be. But NK is only likely to over play their hand if we ignore them. So we should.
So Trump tells the portly little twerp to go and piss up a rope (I hope).
What does he do then?
If it fails to intercept, the NORKs and any other third world despot will run wild with threats.
NKOR/Kim is China’s barking pit bull that has escaped its’ Chinese master. China owns that fat boy.
Kim and China have left Trump and Mattis no alternative. An attack on North Korea to remove Kim is weeks if not days away.
Money, booze and sex, not necessarily in that order. Just like other teenage boys.
Kim is running a protection racket. It is my understanding that NK has been doing this for years and it isn’t just Obama who caved with the cash.
Money and control over the entire Korean peninsula.