Posted on 01/02/2018 12:10:40 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Kim Jong-un is entitled to feel pretty good about his skill in playing Washington and the West. There’s a history of North Korea getting what it wants and not paying anything for it. A succession of American presidents, Republican and Democrat, have been eager to play the mark.
Donald Trump seems to be cut from different cloth, but it’s early and too soon to determine the strength of his kidney. But the world can hope. Presidents before him earned their presidential chops dealing with diplomats, senators and assorted supplicants with good manners and proper deference, and the Donald absorbed the true grit of the street, matching wits with cutthroat business rivals, demanding unions, and connoisseurs of the hard bargain, sharply driven.
When Mr. Kim boasted Monday in a New Year’s Day speech that his new nuclear prowess enables him to strike targets anywhere in America and puts effective retaliation beyond the reach of an American president, Mr. Trump replied with uncharacteristic lack of bluster, and more effective for it: “We’ll see.”
A listener to Rocket Man’s speech could almost hear the squeaks of pain from the sanctions tightening around his chubby throat like a hangman’s noose. His speech was couched in soft words heretofore missing in the North Korean speech.
Mr. Kim had a convenient invitation from Moon Jae-in, the new president of South Korea, to send a delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea next month as guests of Seoul. Mr. Moon is enamored with the idea that hospitality would turn away wrath.
“I am willing to send a delegation and take necessary measures,” Mr. Kim said, “and I believe that the authorities of the North and South can urgently meet to discuss the matter.
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Rocket Man can show the world his skin flute playing skills.
He can have the propaganda pump out word of his superior skills with this rare instrument.
Diplomats = volunteer human shields
I’m no expert, but I do pay attention to all things North Korea. This is, if true, a sign of weakness.
NorK has little in terms of supply to fight a protracted war of any kind. No fuel and no food and soldiers who serve because there is nothing better.
It might be good.
........... I hope you are correct.
Its time to take him out. Time to quit banging gums and bang heads.
In NORK double speak its means they are afraid they cannot handle any heavy warfare during the worst of winter, not enough fuel or food.
Big stalling tactic until spring.
“I am willing to send a delegation and take necessary measures,” Mr. Kim said, “and I believe that the authorities of the North and South can urgently meet to discuss the matter.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A delegation of chemical assassins, more like.
We have to get Kim Jong Un himself to attend the Winter Olympics.
Put a little reagent in his Kim Chi.
The leftist president of SOKO will do everything he can to accommodate Kim.
Kim just likes to say he caused a one on one meeting. It's just what he does for his ego.
Don’t tell that to the neo-Commies here
25 million people in North Korea and he can't find anyone to sew the button back on his shirt?
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